I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 58 "No one can win forever."

"Stationmaster."

Zhou Mo sat cross-legged on the wilderness, wiping the rain from his face, and hesitated before saying, "It would indeed be better to find a safe place to develop steadily."

"only."

"Although we experienced a major crisis last night, we also gained a lot. The captured resources can not only rebuild the camp, but also greatly enhance its strength."

"If we continue to use war to sustain war in this way..."

"After we kill the three leaders sent later one by one, we might as well confront the Demon King head-on."

"You'll never have such a rich harvest anywhere else."

The camp suffered heavy losses last night.

At this point, there wasn't even a house left to shelter from the rain.

"Ah."

Chen Fan nodded slightly, looked at the others, and agreed. Fortune favors the bold; finding a place to avoid the Ghost King would indeed be safer, but such great fortune would be lost.

“Zhou Mo, your idea is based on the assumption that the three leaders of the Ghost King will come one by one. What if they come together?”

Wang Kui shook his head, rejecting Zhou Mo's idea: "Can the camp still hold out?"

"I've been thinking about a question all night."

"Under the station chief's leadership, our camp developed very quickly, but the most obvious flaw was that we had no way to retreat. Once we encountered the enemy, we had to win."

"To not win is to die."

"If you lose just once, you lose the whole game."

No one can win forever.

"We need to leave enough room for error in the camp so that even if we lose once, it won't be a major setback."

"We can earn a little less for a short period of time."

"But if we live long enough and look at it over a longer timeline, it will definitely be more benign than this kind of risky development."

"I understand what you mean."

"Safe places yield little, while unsafe places yield great rewards, but are also far too dangerous."

"So last night I was actually thinking about how to resolve this issue. In the end, based on the current situation of the camp, I came up with a theoretical compromise, but whether it is feasible or not still needs to be decided by the station chief."

"Oh?"

Chen Fan looked at Wang Kui with some surprise, he really hadn't found a suitable balance between the two: "Tell me."

"Stationmaster."

Wang Kui met Chen Fan's gaze, took a deep breath, and tried to calm his tone as much as possible. He knew that his moment to shine had arrived. If his plan was approved, his status in the camp would not be low in the future.

"The current camp has one major drawback."

“Farmland, warehouses and other buildings can only be placed outside the city walls. They are at risk of being destroyed if they encounter the enemy. There is no other way, after all, the cost of building the city walls is too high and the strange stones are not enough to support them.”

"but--"

“This camp can be scaled down considerably.”

"We don't want the farmland."

"I don't want the warehouse."

"Even farms don't want them."

“We don’t even need watchtowers or sacrificial towers; they’re all unnecessary.”

"Only three are needed."

"City walls, arrow towers, and treacherous fires."

"It can then serve the function of defending against enemies."

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Zhou Mo glanced at Wang Kui speechlessly: "Did you secretly drink last night? I just brought back a few bottles of wine yesterday, and you drank them? Why don't you just abandon me?"

"Yes."

Wang Kui nodded seriously: "Even if we don't want people, people are just a burden."

"The arrow towers can automatically attack any monsters that enter the camp's area."

"When monsters invade, humans can play a very small role."

"so--"

He picked up a twig from the ground and gestured on the cryptic map: "If we can find a relatively safe place as our base camp, we can house the 'farms,' 'warehouses,' and other logistical buildings there."

"Then build multiple 'unmanned stations' in the wasteland." "Only walls, arrow towers, and booby traps."

"Used to attack unseen objects that have entered unmanned sites."

"This way we can ensure the absolute safety of the rear, and also ensure that we don't stray too far from the wasteland and fail to obtain enough strange stones."

“The unmanned site offers a lot more flexibility. We can even actively create noise to attract the monsters into the site.”

"It's like fishing."

"Cast fishing nets into the river to catch passing monsters."

Chen Fan lowered his head and pondered the feasibility of this plan. It was a very simple idea: remove all the unnecessary features from a website, leaving it with only the function of attacking.

They don't even need people, so it doesn't matter if the city walls are breached.

It's like a giant "beast trap".

Meanwhile, they hid in a safe place, avoiding the major crisis posed by the Ghost King, and secretly developed their strength.

It's both safe and rewarding.

and--

He has copper pipes.

There's no need to craft the ghost fire.

He then connected the altar to the various unmanned stations, so that he could repair them in time even if the walls were damaged. These unmanned stations could not only bring him strange stones every night, but also serve as eyes and ears.

Once a large number of unmanned sites in an area are destroyed.

This means that a horde of flesh-eating monsters is approaching or a monster king has descended. If a warehouse is built and upgraded to have monitoring capabilities, the specific situation can be known.

It's like setting up a camp in the rear, extending your claws and teeth into the wilderness.

the most important is.

In this way, if they encounter a powerful monster like "Thousand Throat" again, they won't be caught off guard. If they can't beat it, they can avoid it; if they can beat it, they can lure it to their rear. They can advance or retreat at will, and the initiative is in their hands.

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Wang Kui nervously observed the station chief's expression, unable to discern from the chief's expression whether he approved or disapproved of his plan.

He was unaware of the exact cost of the strange stones the stationmaster had used to construct the building.

However, he could roughly estimate the total amount of Mysterious Stones earned by the camp these days if he paid close attention. If it were any other architect, it certainly wouldn't be enough to build so many buildings. Therefore, he vaguely guessed that the stationmaster's consumption of Mysterious Stones for building buildings was far lower than that of other architects.

That's why he proposed this plan.

If you bring in a different architect, this plan simply won't work.

If his initial thought was simply to survive the rainy season, it had changed. He now wanted to make the camp stronger. For the first time, this worker bee, who had served the royal family for 13 years, saw a glimmer of hope for the future.

Not only do we need to live, we need to live better.

"All right!"

Chen Fan brought up the conclusion of the discussion: "We've decided to relocate. We need to find a safe place to build a strong rear base. Let's discuss where would be a good place to move to; if the journey is too far, it will be difficult for us to get there."

Everyone fell into silence.

This is indeed a problem.

The rainy season not only blankets the entire Jiangbei wilderness, but finding a relatively safe place is actually quite difficult.

"Is this place okay?"

The big fish standing to the side hesitated, tapping lightly on the northern edge of the map near the sea, and said, "This is my old village. It's a natural area of ​​ghost fire, located at the northernmost point of the Jiangbei Wasteland near the sea. I don't think even if the Ghost King came to the Wasteland, he would come to this place."

"And it's not very far from here, we can definitely get there before dark."

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Chen Fan looked at that point on the map.

He had heard Big Fish talk about that natural fire zone, which was surrounded by extremely steep mountains. The last time the village was wiped out, it was because some strange creature jumped into the village from the cliff.

However, he could first build a level 5 turret, use it to carve out a huge cave on a cliff, and then take advantage of the "Mountain Skeleton Embryo" treasure he just obtained to maintain the stability of the cave. In this way, he only needs to build a wall at the cave exit.

This greatly reduced the cost of building the city walls.

From being surrounded by enemies on all sides, they now face enemies on one side, creating an absolutely safe rear area.

He made up his mind, looked up at the group, paused for a moment, and then smiled.

"This is the place we'll stay."

"Everyone, let's work harder and dig out all the strange stones so we can pack up and get ready to move."

"Let's find a place to digest this bumper harvest."

(End of this chapter)