Chapter 40: The Beginning of the Scourge of the Tides
On the last day before the arrival of the Tidal Calamity, Lin Xiu asked people to take the ore to the Adventurer's Guild, and exchanged all the 23 baskets of copper ore collected in the past three days, and then exchanged the income from selling iron ore before the Golden Dragon Co-authorship into energy value, and the energy value owned by Lin Xiu rose to 108,000.
Later, Lin Xiu asked people to send the remaining 4 baskets of iron ore to the blacksmith shop to let Allen make hand crossbows, and customized 80 first-order hand crossbows at the price of one silver coin for one basket of iron ore, and the first-order hand crossbows were enough to cause damage to the tidal fishmen.
The difficulty of manufacturing the first-order hand crossbow was much easier than Lin Xiu's white crane, and Allen said that it would be able to deliver it in the afternoon.
After saying goodbye to Allen, Lin Xiu went to the hotel again.
During this time, the first adventure group had a very comfortable time, although there were no taverns or markets here, but it did not prevent them from enjoying life.
Simmons often sits on a recliner on the balcony with a cup of coffee on a small table next to him, absorbing knowledge that has never been touched in the books in his room in the sunset.
Elsa didn't get up until noon every day, and after enjoying a lunch carefully prepared by Camilla, she walked around the village to eat, but the place she went to the most was near Lin Xiu's mansion, hoping to see Lin Xiu, but when Lin Xiu came out, she subconsciously hid to the side.
Charman was a warm-hearted fellow, he saw the villagers rebuilding their homes, and they ran to help, and their bodies were drenched by the rain, but as soon as he returned to the hotel to take a hot shower and come back to life, he never thought that a small pipe could spew hot water.
Kyle's age is past the standard for admission to Hammond Academy, but once he walked past the academy and heard Eugene's words at the door of Hammond Academy, and he couldn't get rid of it.
Jerry was so excited to get the upgraded longbow that he rushed into the Azure Forest with the longbow at dawn every day, and only returned with a large amount of prey at night, bringing back what he could eat, and trading all the things that he couldn't eat to the Adventurers' Guild.
After a brief conversation with Simmons, Lin Xiu successfully hired the first adventure team with ten golden dragons as commission.
Then Lin Xiu came to the armor shop again, and the 40 sets of second-order chain mail customized before had been made, this kind of chain mail can effectively block the fishbone attack of the tidal fishman, and this kind of chain mail was added by Karina with anti-injury runes, when the person wearing the chain mail is attacked, the chain mail will automatically condense a finger-long thorn to counterattack the opponent.
Three boxes of chain mail were transported back to the mansion.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Xiu announced to the villagers that the tidal disaster was coming, and asked the villagers to take refuge in his mansion.
After a short period of panic, the villagers slowly calmed down, and according to Lin Xiu's arrangement, they were placed in some rooms on the second, third and fourth floors of the mansion, under the command of Brooke.
Lin Xiu sent someone to retrieve the custom-made hand crossbow when it was still an hour before it got dark and distributed it to the ordinary villagers who stayed on the second, third and fourth floors.
The First Adventure Team, the Garrison Team, Lin Xiu, and the characters summoned by Lin Xiu all gathered on the first floor.
The garrison wore chain mail, and compared to the panic caused by the last goblin invasion, the villagers behaved calmly.
Li Yan was sure that the tide would rise tonight, but he couldn't be sure of the exact time of the tide, everyone was waiting quietly, and dinner was delivered by Winona and Arya one by one.
The rain outside the house was still dripping, and some old people and children slowly couldn't hold on, so Brooke let them sleep in those unoccupied rooms with Lin Xiu's permission.
Looking at his younger brother sleeping on the bed, a rare touch of tenderness appeared on Sawyer's face, and he had the ability to protect the warm feeling in his heart, which was good!
I don't know when, the night slowly blurs people's consciousness.
Bang!
A thunderclap tore through the night and carried out the crumbling villagers.
"Someone, the Tidal Fishman is coming!"
The villagers on the fourth floor stood the tallest and saw the farthest, and when they saw the sound and shadow moving in the darkness, someone immediately shot an arrow at the black shadow.
Sou!
The arrows entered the night without a ripple.
"Fool, have you forgotten what the village chief explained? You only have 20 arrows, and you have to wait for the tidal fishmen to break into the wall and shoot them at the most dangerous time. Brooke yelled at the young villager who had shot the bolt.
Because of the need to make hand crossbows, these arrows were made by the dwarf Kroba when Allen was enchanted, and they are considered to be a supporting product of hand crossbows, but this is also the limit, even if Lin Xiu asks Kroba to make more arrows, Kroba can't do anything.
And the rune that Allen attaches to the hand crossbow is a long shot, this rune makes the effective range of the hand crossbow reach 300 meters, such a long distance, even the villagers who come into contact with the hand crossbow for the first time will not hurt their teammates because of it.
Sou!
As soon as Brooke finished speaking, there was a burst of arrows in the next room.
Brooke poked his head out of the window and yelled at the room next to him, "I told you you weren't allowed to shoot arrows without my orders, and your heads are all covered with slime poop?"
There was no one in the next room, and two desperate screams came from the night.
"Shot!" "Shot!" Jerry didn't really know why the face-blind man named Alan named the longbow was called the Eye of Death, the piercing rune gave the longbow a powerful killing power, and the aiming rune allowed him to seize the momentary opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.
"Hit!"
"How is it possible? Could it be that the light brought by that lightning just now is incredible. ”
Brooke opened his mouth and couldn't speak for a long time, and Jerry was shocked too much!
"Everyone, light the torches!" Lin Xiu shouted.
"Light the torch!"
The villagers passed Lin Xiu's words layer by layer, and each room emitted a faint light, and the torches on the roof were also lit by Arya and Winona.
In the dark night, Lin Xiu's mansion was like a lit torch, bringing a little light to the night.
The sparse tidal fishmen instantly found their target and walked towards the glowing 'castle'.
"Garrison members, follow me to meet the enemy!"
Lin Xiu pulled out the white crane and shouted, and the villagers, who had been preparing for the first floor for a long time, immediately rushed out of the gate in the rain and stood on the stool behind the wall.
Now the wall is two meters high, not only can the tidal fishmen not enter, but these members of the garrison cannot attack each other, only with the height of the stool, they can hand the bone knife outside the wall.
"Great, the rain hasn't stopped. Kyle stood on the stool and sighed, although the rain had completely wet his body, he didn't mind at all, he was a water mage, and his strength increased by at least 50% on a rainy day.
Simmons stood beside Kyle, heard Kyle's words, and reminded him, "Don't be in a hurry to rejoice, this rain is a disaster for Hammond." ”
Elsa smiled and looked at Lin Xiu, who was waiting on the other side of the wall: "I believe that Lin Xiu will have a way." ”
"Ersa, you're hopeless. Charman made a final comment.
The western wall facing the sea not only gathered the first adventure team, but also most of the members of the garrison, Lin Xiu, and several system summoners gathered here.
According to Lin Xiu's estimate, the tidal fishmen came from the sea, and the first contact must be the western wall, so everyone got together to familiarize themselves with the attack methods of the tidal fishmen, and then dispersed the defense.
However, with the upgrade of the mansion, the scope of the wall has also increased, with an average of ten defenders on each wall, it is certain that there are tidal fishmen leaking in, so it is unrealistic to say that it is a matter of rigidity to defend the wall, Lin Xiu only wants to be able to hold on as long as possible before retreating to the house.
"It's coming!"
In the night, a monster with a height of one meter, white fish scales, fish eyes, fingers and toes formed something similar to a fish's fin, leaning forward, with exceptionally developed hind legs and a golden forehead, dragged an unknown fish bone and quickly ran towards the west wall.