Chapter 2: The Well of the Moon
"Because we weren't sure we would survive, because we didn't have the experience to deal with it. Because ......," the rabbit grandmother said a series of because.
These worries sounded reasonable, but Xue Wang heard many questions from them.
Why trust me when you don't know what you're sure of yourself?
However, Xue Wang looked at the old rabbit's vicissitudes of life and did not say his doubts.
He sighed, it was just a game anyway, so what did it matter if you played it?
Thinking of this, Xue Wang concentrated on continuing the game.
This real tower defense game, unlike video games, doesn't have the function of a time gear, which doesn't regulate the speed at which the game progresses.
At the same time, there are no pauses or breaks in this game, and from the very beginning of the game, it is necessary to keep playing.
Therefore, Xue Wang is not in 996 but in 007. From 0:00 a.m. every day, I work until 0:00 a.m. the next morning, and I work every seven days.
However, having said that, there are some differences between the lunar calendar and the earth.
However, although he is so inhuman, Xue Wang's physical and mental state is still at a high level.
The reason is because Xue Wang's body is no longer considered a human being. On the basis of humanity, it has been greatly strengthened.
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"I'm a long-eared clan, an ordinary long-eared clan, I was born ten days ago. I entered the barracks five days ago and officially became a Mobile Suit, and I'm on my way to the front line in iron armor......"
A heavily armed rabbit, stuffed in iron armor like a stuffy tank, moves in the direction of the front line.
They have free will, but this free will is limited to the imagination in their minds and the completion of the action instructions required by the Supreme Commander, some insignificant places.
"Our mission is to get out of the colony and clean up the zombies, and there are nineteen siblings around me. The Supreme Commander told us that the great revival of the Long-eared people depends on you. ”
"Da Da Da!"
Oxygen bullets poured out non-stop, these invisible bullets, hitting the zombies, reality repelled them, and then beat them into a puddle of mud.
But......
At the same time, the zombies around this zombie will move towards this direction when they hear the sound of machine guns.
If only one mobile suit faced such a large number of zombies, it would be impossible to see the sun tomorrow.
"The Supreme Commander ordered us to keep moving along the current path and, if we encounter an enemy, start attacking the most threatening units first......"
Appeared!
Special zombies in addition to normal zombies!
Although the appearance of this zombie called "Runner" is not much different from that of ordinary zombies, the most special thing about them is that they run unusually fast.
"Dadada!"
A barrage of bullets poured on the runner's body, and the runner fell.
At this time, I found that behind the runner, there was actually a more advanced zombie - "Banshee"!
The banshee is very different from ordinary zombies, her long ears have not decayed and fallen like other zombies, although it is very withered like her skin, but it still looks like she is a long-eared person.
However, what is terrifying about her is not her appearance, but that she is different from ordinary zombies who can only perform normal attacks, she can attack from a distance, and she can spray a stream of acid, which can corrode almost everything.
"Spread out!"
"Spread out!"
The only veteran of the Mobile Suit shouted.
Despite the meager air, the sound still traveled far away, and the long ears of the mobile suit could hear it clearly.
The dense formation soon dispersed.
However, in the process of shouting and reacting, there are already gaps.
The banshee spewed a fan-shaped stream of acid that landed on the two mobile suits.
The iron armor began to smoke, corroding at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The oxygen stored in the iron armor began to escape outward. The horde of zombies, which was originally slow and aimless, began to storm towards the oxygen source.
"There are only twenty of us, and each of us is a mobile suit that has cost a lot of resources. When we were in the barracks, the instructor taught us one thing, which was ...... Protect your teammates.
But......
In actual combat, we were allowed to retreat! ”
Xue Wang, who was in God's perspective, looked at the increasingly irritable zombie tide and gave the order to retreat.
Such a retreat, although it is equivalent to the sacrifice of two mobile suits.
However, in the face of such a rioting corpse tide, and I don't know how many high-level zombies there are, the best way is to retreat.
This is done from the perspective of the whole big picture.
If this is a video game, Xue Wang's operation is not a problem, but he is not operating a video game now, although there are characters he can control, they are all alive.
"Da-da."
"Da Da Da ......"
"The tide of corpses is far more numerous than we imagined, far denser than we imagined. I don't know when, our retreat turned out to be all zombies. ”
This time, the riot was far bigger than Xue Wang imagined.
Originally, he wanted to get some of the mobile suits to retreat and save their living power.
However, when he discovers that the horde of corpses may follow the Mobile Suits back to the settlement, dealing a devastating blow to the weakly defended settlement, he makes a choice.
He chose to sacrifice the Mobile Suits and let them take the tide of corpses farther away.
The rabbit grandmother watched Xue Wang's operation and didn't say anything.
Compared to Xue Wang, she has seen more deaths.
Even......
Those surging corpse tides were originally her compatriots.
"I found out that we weren't going home, we were going farther and farther. Have we been abandoned by the Commander? Why is this so? I wanted to ask the captain, but he didn't have time to answer our questions. Now I have a question, why were we born?
Were we born to protect this base?
But what's the use of guarding the base if we die?
I'm still young and I don't want to die......"
“RUA!”
The zombies that scurried away pounced on the mobile suit.
On the map in front of Xue Wang's eyes, the bright spot representing the life unit was extinguished again.
Xue Wang didn't think about the life that this represents, he said to himself, "Their sacrifice is for the sake of other people's better lives." ”
"I'm going to go south, assist me, go south."
Dilate.
The oxygen gradually filled the front line, and Xue Wang kept manipulating and expanding forward.
Technology has been upgraded.
The humble house that could only live in four units can now be upgraded to accommodate eight people.
In addition, the construction cost and maintenance cost of eight people is only 50% more than that of four people, which can be said to be a good deal.
However, Xue Wang did not upgrade according to the familiar anger that the house was built.
Instead, the dwellings inhabited by the mobile suits who died in the wilderness were upgraded first.
Although it is his decision which unit to become a soldier, Xue Wang hopes that he can make the people in this game feel hope.
In addition, another technology upgrade is the upgrade of the farm.
From the mushroom farm, he advanced to the mushroom manor.
Originally, mushroom farms could only be built in the foothills.
The current mushroom manor can be built in some depressions where the conditions are not particularly good.
Although the unit yield is not as high as that of a mushroom farm, a manor with an area of twelve blocks still produces several times more food than a farm that only occupies one grid.
Crucially, there are more places where you can build your estate.
Although, the use of workers, is twelve times that of the estate.
However, there is no shortage of people in the settlements now.
The population has reached more than four hundred.
Xue Wang was a little curious, how did these long-eared clans appear.
Although all the buildings except the base car were built by Xue Wang, he only knew the effect of these buildings, and did not know what the operating principle of these buildings was.
Don't......
Every time a house is built, do long-eared people come in and applaud love?
Although the reproductive ability of rabbits is indeed very strong, it is ......
Not so fast, right?
However, although Xue Wang still has many questions, the old rabbit is still very satisfied with the current progress.
She became more and more convinced that the man who had fallen from the sky might be the one mentioned in the prophecy.
This person may really save the civilization of the Long-eared people.
Although she didn't agree with some of his practices, she was still able to accept them for the great revival of the long-eared clan.
The upgrading of science and technology often means the upgrading of material demand.
Originally, only stone and steel were mined, but now some of the rarer deposits need to be mined.
Mobile Suits are better than Militia, and even better than Mobile Suits are Snipers.
The sniper is armed with a sniper rifle, which, although its rate of fire is relatively low, is several times more damaging than that of a machine gun.
The most important thing is that it can destroy an ordinary zombie with a single bullet.
This is much better than a Mobile Suit that takes a few shots to take out a zombie and causes multiple fighters to output a zombie, resulting in wasted firepower.
However, the sniper rifle requires a deposit called "Moonstone".
Moonstone is not a random stone on the moon, but a thing as transparent as crystal, and it can be carefully polished to become a suitable sniper lens.
From a game point of view, Xue Wang understands this setting, but from a realistic point of view, his absolute glass factory is definitely more efficient than that of the moonstone mine.
Unfortunately, there is no Glassworks option in the Tech Tree.
And Xue Wang's knowledge reserve was not enough to guide him to build a glass factory on the moon.
In addition to the Sniper, there are also some buildings that require the use of Moonstone.
For example - watchtowers.
The difference between a watchtower and a watchtower is that it is not just a climb to see from afar, but an optical device that can obtain information from a distance.
Although Xue Wang has a God's perspective, his perspective is full of the fog of war.
He didn't know what was going on outside of his vision, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't have the right means to deal with it.
Even if the scramble is successful, it is too wasteful of resources.
Therefore, the moonstone mines had to be mined, and watchtowers had to be built.
However, this made Xue Wang have another question, is the magic of the old rabbit just to open a base car?
When the Moonstone Mine was built, the old rabbit told him a new message, "I have a new building here, which can only be built by me, and it will take a lot of Moonstone to build." ”
"What kind of building is it, and what is it for?" Xue Wang asked.
"The moon well, what it does is to be able to produce more oxygen."
More oxygen means faster expansion.
With the expansion of the blue zone, the oxygen produced by the base car is no longer very abundant.
"Could it be that oxygen is produced from the moonstone?" Xue Wang asked.
"Yes, that's right. The base car is a giant moonstone reactor. The old rabbit said.
In that case, everything seems to make sense.
Moonstone is not a simple physical lens, it can also be decomposed into oxygen.
This miraculous substance, if it were on earth, could be marketed more expensive than diamonds.
Although it doesn't seem to last forever, it ......
The treasure that can be sucked, the bigger the stone, the more I love you, isn't it......
It is even said that inhaling high concentrations of oxygen can be addictive.
In this way, it is not only a one-shot deal, but even a long-lasting industrial chain.
The thoughts in Xue Wang's mind were mixed.
Since there is a moonstone, maybe there are other novelties here.
Xue Wang thought so.
I don't know if here, like the earth, there will also be invasions of foreign civilizations.
Huh?
Seems like I'm an alien civilization.
And the purpose of my coming to the moon is also to occupy the moon and gain control here.
Doesn't that mean......
I became a villain!!???
If I'm the villain, why would I save the long-eared people here?
Xue Wang was thinking about this while constantly operating the expansion.
Use a small number of militia to do rapid dynamic scheduling, and wipe out waves of zombies within the offensive range of the crossbow tower.
The purpose of this elimination is to minimize the power of zombies when the zombie tide comes.
Although it doesn't seem like a lot of them, there are a lot of them together.
The moon well is built.
Xue Wang looked at the crystal clear moon well, which seemed to begin to condense blue liquid, and these blue liquids began to rise, turning into a blue line and stirring into the sky, turning into rich oxygen and rippling again.
Such a small moon well has no small effect at all.
Even, it has affected the generation of corpse tides.
The next wave of corpses, South!
Their goal, from the base to the moon well!
Xue Wang's new mission, guarding the Moon Well!