A polluted shrine.
Standing in front of Cheng Shaofeng and the players.
Gudugudu~
Black liquid continuously flowed out of the nine coffins above, polluting the shrine and the land.
This eye of the formation is not the only one. In the vast and boundless territory occupied by the virtual spirits, there are many such coffins, which maintain their daily survival.
Looking up, I saw a layer of green smoke covering the sky, completely blocking out the sun.
In order to clear the pollution, these nine coffins must be destroyed.
But this will attract a large number of void spirits!
"We haven't repaired our retreat route yet. If the Aetherials come from behind to flank us, we will be surrounded. There are countless Aetherials... I don't know if we can make it back before our supplies run out."
The fox demon analyzed this way.
Cheng Shaofeng: "Indeed... and it is about to enter the night."
They have been fighting for a full six hours since they set out.
Killed 8 million virtual spirits.
It is currently 6pm, and the day is changing to night.
We have come this far, and it would be uncomfortable if we don’t purify this constellation. But if we purify it at this time... then there would probably be great risks.
Lin Tang touched his magazine compartment and found that there was not much stock left.
"Uh... I'm running out of enchanted bullets. If I don't have any bullets, I can only use my energy gun, but I'm afraid it doesn't have such high firepower..."
Energy guns do not require bullets, they only need to condense energy to fire. Without the restriction of bullets, they also lose the advantage of firing speed of traditional firearms. After all, it takes time to condense an energy bullet, while pre-enchanted bullets can be used at any time, and it is no problem to directly fire dozens or hundreds of bullets at a time without affecting the use of other skills.
Therefore, energy guns are currently the backup options for shooters. They are used when the battle intensity is not high to save bullets. When a real battle breaks out, enchanted bullets will still be used.
Riben Guizi: "I'm running out of bullets..."
Hiroshima Atom: "I still have more than 20 bombs and traps combined."
Da Ni Xiao Ji Ji: "We mages don't need bullets. With the energy recovery speed, we don't have to worry about not having enough output. I can spend the whole day with the Void Spirit."
All parties are running out of ammunition, and currently the most complete combat power is the mages and summoners.
Seeing that Cheng Shaofeng was still evaluating his combat power, the unstoppable captain said:
"Boss, how about this! You guys go back first, and when you're almost at the base, tell me. I'll just blow this thing up with heavy artillery, and then you can die outside and then go back and revive. The data is backed up anyway."
Sacrifice a player and blow this thing up.
Cheng Shaofeng thought for a moment and said, "Not appropriate... There will be extra rewards for purifying the polluted shrine. If you destroy it alone, everyone will be less pious. I suggest that everyone throw a few enchanted bullets, and then bury the remaining ammunition traps here. Hiroshima Atom, you come to the scene to make a timed activation trap, set the time, and then... detonate it."
"The shrine cannot be destroyed, but the surrounding pollution will be blown away in one go, and everyone will gain extra piety points."
Thin Dog: “Great!”
"It's thanks to the Lord's careful consideration that everyone's rewards have been taken into account."
Hiroshima Atom: "Okay! I'll make it right away!"
Next, all the players threw in a bunch of enchanted bullets, plus a large number of grenades, canister bombs, and blackwater cocktails, which were piled up around the shrine. Once detonated... the power would be no less than that of an intercontinental missile.
Before leaving, the players cleared out the surrounding phantoms and set up a bunch of traps to prevent the phantoms from getting close and destroying the explosives, causing them to detonate prematurely.
After everything was done, Cheng Shaofeng waved his hand.
"withdraw!"
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark, and the power of the void spirit was slowly expanding.
From the scans of large communication base stations, we can see that the combat power of the Void Spirits is increasing rapidly.
If left outside, players who have lost a lot of ammunition will be in a passive situation.
Da da da da~
The players quickly retreated along the route they came from, and the ghosts that came to replenish them were killed along the way. The progress of the construction players behind them in paving and purifying the wasteland was far slower than that of the advancing players. So far, the passage has only been pushed forward 5 kilometers, and the purification of the wasteland is also slowly being pushed forward.
Old Tian looked at the green dot approaching in the distance and said, "This wasteland still has the energy to resist. The source behind it has not been cut off. Our transformation speed is very slow. Once the lord and his men blow up the eye of the formation, this wasteland will be easy to purify."
This is also an extremely energy-consuming action. The terrain-transforming nanorobots need the nutrient solution to continuously split and also need crystals to continuously supply energy.
Forgive Hat and the others followed behind and made a large number of virtual spirit toys, imprisoned a bunch of virtual spirits, and waited to start sucking them for everyone tomorrow.
"The smell of this white smoke... is pretty good. After inhaling it, it not only increases the properties of the surface, but also makes people feel refreshed and their desire to fight increases. If we bring this stuff to big cities and let the rich people inhale it, won't we make a lot of money?"
"Next time I make it, I have to measure the amount of smoke. How much smoke can be produced by stir-frying a hollow spirit? How much smoke can be inhaled to achieve the effect of invigorating the spirit..."
The Forgiveness Hat naturally began to plan for its new products.
He came to the battlefield not only to respond to the lord's call, but also to create some new products for his own industry.
"Everyone, collect the spiritual powder on the ground. You don't have to go out to fight the virtual spirits. The ones that fall outside are enough for our greenhouse."
"One millimeter is also a distance." A group of them, the farming type, came here with large buckets to collect the battlefields that the players had not cleaned up, and sucked out a pile of spiritual powder of various colors from the ground.
Forgiveness Hat: "Hey~ Green Hat Seed Team! Are you here to pick up the spoils too?"
These spiritual powders can be decomposed into good things.
The players in front pushed too hard, so it was inevitable that some loot was missed when collecting it, and the players behind would pick it up again when passing by.
We are all friends, it doesn’t matter. He smiled and said, “Haha~ Yes, we have planted several new crops that like shade in the greenhouse, and we need some of this stuff. This stuff is much more useful as fertilizer than grinding the Avatar Crystal into powder.”
Forgive Hat: "I understand! Original soup turns into original food! Yin crops naturally need to be catalyzed by the corpse of the virtual spirit. If the virtual spirit knew that his corpse could still play a role after his death, he would definitely be very happy."
She said that wearing it doesn’t count as giving: “6! Deduct 1 for the virtual spirit king of hell to laugh with you.”
Amid the laughter of the players in the back row, the Void Spirits were fully utilized, and their deaths would also bring more help to the players to deal with other Void Spirits.
“Run, run, run!”
"Hurry up! Go back to base!"
"Stop it! Retreat immediately!"
More than 10,000 players rushed back and called on Lao Tian and his men to retreat.
"What's the matter?"
“It’s about to explode!”
...
The far east.
Under the bright moonlight, huge cemeteries appeared one after another. A huge silver ball was hovering over the cemeteries. On it was a huge and detailed map. One area was dyed black, and the black color was still spreading around...
In the cemetery, countless translucent high-level spirits walked around, like a hundred ghosts parading at night.
“Huh~~~”
A strange sound like blowing and sighing appeared, and the green smoke floating in the air condensed into an arrow pointing to a special location on the silver sphere map.
The black in this location is slowly fading...
Suddenly, dozens of phantoms flew out of the tomb. It seemed as if giant vacuum cleaners were installed under their bodies. They sucked up a bunch of phantoms from the road and headed towards their destination together.
After a while...
A thick black cloud came over the polluted shrine.
Seeing a pile of inexplicable objects placed next to the shrine, the black clouds disintegrated and countless phantom spirits descended from the sky.
Multiple formations were triggered on the spot!
Boom!
!
A colorful mushroom cloud replaced the black cloud and floated into the sky.
Boom~~
Boom~~
Boom~~
The earth trembled, the mountains shattered, and water vapor surged into the sky.
"Fuck! So fierce!"
The players who had just rushed back to the sub-base were all shocked when they saw a huge colorful mushroom cloud 30 kilometers away.
They could imagine that the ammunition and explosives assembled from more than 10,000 players would be a bit powerful.
I didn't expect it to be... more than a little bigger.
It's outrageous!
Boom!
Buzz!
The ground shaking passively activated the base's protective shield, preventing the ground under the sub-base from shaking again.
And then, all the players’ smart watches began to emit intensive reminder sounds!
Ding~ding~ding~ding~
In an instant, hundreds of thousands of messages flooded the screen!
Shadow Guard 1 was completely stunned.
"How did I gain 2.55 million experience points?"
The players looked through the records and found that the explosion just now had killed more than 500,000 phantom spirits, and each of them was of a high level, at least level two or above!
Lin Tang: "Fuck! We are too far away and I don't have enough experience. My heart... hurts so much!"
Xufeng: "Oh, it would be nice if I could gain experience regardless of the distance..."
Mo Ming: "Hahahaha! Great! Fortunately, I'm not the only one who didn't get experience points! I got scared when your watch rang just now, and I thought some shameless person got some experience points... Hahaha~"
As he was laughing, he suddenly collapsed to the ground for no apparent reason.
The player 'Inexplicable Green Invention' was banned for 12 hours because his behavior affected the unity of the base.
"Good fellow! Is this because he acted rashly over there and got punished later?"
"That's for sure. If he had taken action just now and attracted a bunch of virtual spirits, we wouldn't have been able to retreat so smoothly. If everyone died and their equipment was exploded, the loss would have been huge."
"Great seal!"
Cheng Shaofeng curled his lips: "You are shameless, bah!"
"I, Shadow Guard, have the experience I have today, all thanks to my own efforts!"
It’s strange to say, other players didn’t get any experience, but his Shadow Guard 1 did, and he doesn’t know how it was determined.
"Could it be that... the logic of Shadow Guards gaining experience is different from that of players?"
Cheng Shaofeng didn't think much about it, but suddenly he was puzzled by a question.
"Where did more than 500,000 virtual spirits suddenly come from to offer their lives?"
The players were also a little puzzled.
But after checking the historical scans of the communication base station, a group of energy bodies were discovered coming from the east. After they landed, they triggered multiple traps and then directly detonated the accumulated explosives.
The fox touched his chin and said, "Is this... a coincidence? If more than 500,000 virtual spirit elites besieged a city, it would be an epic disaster. How could they just happen to fall there?"
Currently, players have too little information and have not been able to analyze where the phantom spirit came from.
"But... these Void Spirits explode with gold! We can pick up a ton of Spirit Powder tomorrow!"
At this moment, there was a sudden ding sound.
The players received another reminder.
You have purified a polluted shrine, rewarding +1 Piety Point
All participating players and Cheng Shaofeng received this additional 1 piety point.
"It seems that the pollution has been completely cleared... I can go and make an offering tomorrow and gain another piety point."
Cheng Shaofeng looked at his panel with some regret. He only had 1 piety point.
"If multiple Shadow Guards join in the cleanup, does that count as one? It seems there's no bug..."
All of his shadow guards and his true self share the same constellation system. Once one of them obtains it, the others cannot obtain it again.
"So this devotion point is soul-bound..."
"Two points can add a lot of attributes. I wonder what will happen after I activate all the shrines."
Cheng Shaofeng had a hunch that when he collected all the shrines, some special changes would occur in the Calamity Base, and the construction of the Calamity Base would definitely have a lot to do with the constellations!
night.
The players were not in a hurry to log off.
The large amount of spiritual powder collected today can be decomposed.
A large number of loot generators are crowded with players.
Spirit powder decomposes very quickly, which may be why there is no trouble with corpses.
But because of its small mass, a single portion of spiritual powder can usually only decompose into one thing.
Players just fill a bucket with spirit powder and pour it in, then let the machine start decomposing.
Every player is holding at least 2 large buckets of spirit powder!
The colors inside are mixed together, highlighting a casual feel.
After all, we killed too many of them. If we cut them into portions, it would probably take a week to finish.
Such a large bucket basically contains several hundred virtual spirits, and a lot of goods can be produced at once.
Players have also discovered a pattern: if more is poured in, the concentration of the spiritual powder will be high and the chance of producing high-quality goods will be higher.
"Come on! Try this. It has lots of red spirit powder!"
"Wow~ Golden epic!"
"Wow~ Green is rare!"
"Wow~ what a pile of garbage! F*ck!"
"Damn it, I didn't get any epic items in this bucket, who the hell stole my high-quality spiritual powder!"
"I just learned the art of prayer from the Oathkeeper. Dear Three Witch Gods, please grant me the power of luck and let my bucket of powder produce a legendary equipment~~ Hmm? Where's my bucket? Damn! Who stole my bucket?"
"I see you're being too slow, so I'll just pour it in for you. Don't worry, I just made a move offline, so I'm definitely going to have good luck!"
"Guide my..."
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The players had a blast playing the game, and this rewarding moment was the most satisfying.
As a large number of equipment, inlays, crystals, and consumables are opened up, the players' strength is also improving rapidly.
Cheng Shaofeng naturally did not miss this exciting event.
Without him saying anything, the fox demon helped collect 10 barrels of high-quality spiritual powder and brought them to him.
Seeing that it belonged to the leader, other players did not dare to snatch it.
After all, there are inexplicable examples there. They are afraid that if they steal the lord's spoils, their favorability will drop and their account will be banned.
"Come on! Open!"
In the machine, a bucket of spiritual powder with a noticeably high red content was being rapidly transformed into spoils of war.
Gurgle~
The conveyor belt rolled out with a large amount of spoils. Cheng Shaofeng's eyes lit up and he took a fiery red ring directly from it, overjoyed.
"Wow~ Golden Legend!"
He obtained his first legendary accessory!
at this time.
In the far east, the place where graves are connected is not peaceful. Strong energy fluctuations are erupting inside. Although the language is not understood, if someone is here, they can vaguely feel that there are ghosts cursing... ...