LWGP - Chapter 92
Chapter 92: Suppression
Wang Jiu's inhumanity dealt a massive critical hit to everyone.
If everyone dies together, it's easier to accept. But the moment one person can avoid that fate, not everyone, but at least Liao Luo and his two hundred-plus followers felt a pain as if their hearts were being pricked by ninety-nine needles. It was unbearable.
Even if it was the truth, why did you have to say it out loud?
This Demon King was definitely doing it on purpose.
But they didn't dare to confront her and could only endure it meekly.
Jiang Kaikai grasped the key point. "So what do we do now? Just sit here and wait to die?"
But Wang Jiu, standing at the very front, looked down at the terrifying, squirming swarm of rats outside.
There had to be at least seventy or eighty thousand of them.
The five or six thousand of them weren't even enough for them to devour.
"Is this really the time to be calculating their appetites?" Liao Luo couldn't help but snap.
Wang Jiu glanced at him, then suddenly grabbed him by the collar and threw him outside.
Horrified, Liao Luo found himself flying out of the resurrection point. Before he even landed, a dense black mass of rats swarmed after him, exposing the numerous holes they had dug in the ground. Wang Jiu glanced over, confirming her suspicions. She suddenly rushed out as well, but not too far. Taking a single step forward, just before the rats could swarm her, she pulled out her homestead and slammed it down.
Boom!
A pile of rats was crushed into meat paste by the 210-square-meter house, and its luminous barrier aligned perfectly with the glowing light of the resurrection point.
The crowd didn't quite understand her intention. Was it to block them?
Xie Lu, however, reacted extremely quickly. He said to Wang Shu, "Take out your house too. Place it along the edge to suppress them."
Wang Shu instinctively obeyed, taking out his 180-square-meter mansion and placing it against Wang Jiu's house, completing one side. Immediately after, Xie Lu also took out a house, though it was only 120 square meters. He placed it on the other side of Wang Jiu's house and offered an explanation: "Everyone with a house, take it out. Place them edge to edge to form a seal. The homestead's defense is a vertical suppression. It extends ten meters up into the sky and should also go ten meters down into the ground. The rat holes that were just exposed are at most three or four meters deep. They can't dig any further down. It must be a system setting; the soil and foundation in the resurrection point area are difficult to dig through. So as long as we defend the surrounding area, and everyone else shoots some rats, we should be able to slow their progress. Besides, I don't think they can attack the resurrection point indefinitely. The point itself likely has a recovery timer; otherwise, it would be too one-sided."
While he was explaining in detail, Jiang Kaikai also took out his homestead. Although 25 square meters was pathetic, it was a matter of life and death, so it was better than nothing.
With this protection, about two-thirds of the resurrection point's perimeter was blocked. Afterward, without any need for commands from Xie Lu or Wang Jiu, Zhao Shanxiao had already directed his team of archers to focus their fire on the rat gathering in the remaining one-third of the area.
At a time like this, no one was dwelling on past grudges or feuds. Even people like He Ming proactively bought bows and arrows to shoot outside.
"No more bows and arrows, buy them quickly!"
"If the resurrection point falls, no one will survive! Your families and friends will all die!"
"Look at that Liao Luo outside, he almost died!"
Speaking of which, Liao Luo, who had just been thrown out by Wang Jiu, had been scared witless in that instant. Although he could probably resurrect if he died, he would lose a level.
He had already died three times today and lost three levels. If he lost another, he might as well not bother living.
So, in that brief moment, he erupted with a frantic will to survive. It was almost as if he stepped on his left foot with his right to ascend to the heavens... oh, no, it was his left foot stepping on one rat and his right on another. Using their plump bodies to leap upward, he left several afterimages as he flew like lightning onto the roof of Wang Jiu's homestead.
He was initially afraid he'd be repelled, but unexpectedly, the house accepted him.
This time, Liao Luo kept his mouth shut. Even though he was filled with resentment for Wang Jiu, he didn't dare to run his mouth, only saying, "Why didn't it repel me?"
"I don't like people who talk too much nonsense, but as long as they have value, I won't refuse them."
Wang Jiu's words were flat and bone-chillingly ruthless.
Liao Luo could interpret it as—because you ran your mouth, I threw you out, not caring if you lived or died. But if you didn't die, you're still of some use, so I won't kill you again, unless you run your mouth again.
So brutal, so heartless. He shivered.
Liao Luo gritted his teeth, not daring to say anything. He could only buy a bronze bow and arrow and shoot at the agitated swarm of rats below.
They seemed more agitated than before.
Because this side was blocked, they couldn't dig their way in.
They utterly hated this human who owned a homestead.
Liao Luo watched helplessly as the rats climbed over one another, stacking up to envelop more than half of the house.
It was terrifying and creepy.
"Why aren't you attacking them?"
Liao Luo shot until his hands grew weak, but it was no use. There were too many rats. Just the ones clinging to the house numbered in the thousands, and they would soon reach the roof.
Wang Jiu glanced over. Just as a ferocious rat was about to crawl onto her bare foot...
Voom!
The homestead repelled all foreign creatures that touched its light shield.
In that one move, a thousand plump rats were all turned into meat paste, and the impact force crushed several hundred more.
Liao Luo's jaw tightened. He subconsciously remembered how his own puppet had been repelled and severely injured. He shot a quick glance at Wang Jiu.
This woman's composure was too steady.
It was one scheme after another.
On the other side, Xie Lu was doing the same thing. It was clear that these two most powerful people were in sync.
The strong truly do have things in common.
Even Zhao Shanxiao wasn't sure if he, had he owned a homestead, could have found a method and counterattacked in such a short time.
At this moment, Wang Jiu also instructed Wang Shu next door, "The homestead's repulsive attack isn't unlimited. Mine can be used once every 2 minutes. Calculate yours and see if it's related to spirit energy or the homestead's square footage. If not, they should all be about the same."
Wang Shu had only just gotten his homestead and had no experience; he was just imitating Wang Jiu. When he saw her lure the rats up to repel them for an area-of-effect attack, he had wanted to copy her but hadn't thought about the cooldown time.
"Okay, Master, I'll calculate it."
Before Wang Shu could finish calculating, Xie Lu voluntarily reported his own data. "Mine is 120 square meters, 200 spirit energy, three-minute cooldown."
Who reveals their trump cards like that? Or are all military men this honest?
But Wang Shu, who knew a little about the other's background, felt it was a kind of open and honest confidence. Do all strong people...
Forget it. His master was a sly fox. She could see through eighteen generations of someone's ancestors, while she herself was as deep as the sea.
Wang Shu quickly determined his own cooldown time. "Mine is also three minutes, but my spirit energy is 0."
The vegetables he planted weren't ripe yet, so he had no spirit energy.
Xie Lu: "Then it's affected by both square footage and spirit energy. Control the timing."
After speaking, he glanced at Wang Jiu. He was accustomed to directing people to solve difficult situations, but after he spoke, he felt he might have infringed on Wang Jiu's authority and didn't know if she was angry.
But one look left Xie Lu speechless.
Because Wang Jiu was grabbing one of Liao Luo's hands.
Liao Luo: "What the fuck, what are you doing!"
Wang Jiu: "Borrowing some of your blood to lure them up. They've gotten a little scared and don't dare to come up."
Liao Luo: "Fuck you! Can't you use your own?!"
Wang Jiu: "You're here, so why should I use my own? Why are you asking such a strange question?"
Liao Luo: "!"
He instantly understood why she had let him onto the roof—she had planned all along to use him as a blood bag to lure the rats.
And here he thought his combat power was valuable. Valuable my ass!
Fuck!
Wang Jiu was far stronger than him, her attributes several times higher. Liao Luo couldn't break free at all before she sliced open a gash. As blood dripped down, the brainless rats went into a frenzy and swarmed up the house once more.
Wang Jiu was pleased when she saw this and thanked Liao Luo sincerely, "Thanks. But don't go anywhere, I'll need more blood later. Cover it up for now, don't waste it."
Liao Luo was so angry he could grind his teeth to dust, but he still didn't dare to leave.
Voom!
Wang Jiu launched the second wave of repulsive attacks. The layer of rat blood and flesh below was already thick. However, she also received a system notification.
"After being attacked, the resurrection point's array has activated its auto-repair function. A full repair and refresh of the complete array is estimated to take 30 minutes. Current array integrity: 56%. Time remaining until full repair and refresh: twenty minutes…"
In other words, it refreshed in 30-minute cycles. If they could protect the 56% integrity for the next twenty minutes, they would be safe. Although there would be another 30-minute cycle, it was estimated that as long as their stamina and resources held up, they could definitely defend through the subsequent waves, because the first wave was always the hardest.
To save their lives, they certainly wouldn't be stingy with resources, but the most crucial thing right now was the first wave!
If they couldn't hold, everything else was pointless.
"Those without bows and arrows, buy them now! Even with attributes of 1, you can still kill rats with a bow and arrow. Stop being so fucking stingy!"
"Didn't you see that the strongest ones have stayed? If you act all stingy and piss them off, they'll just leave with their homesteads, and then no one will be left to protect you!"
When great danger arrives, the masses either follow the idiots, or talent emerges from among them.
With someone like Wang Jiu around, the idiots basically didn't dare to show their faces, so talent emerged instead.
And so, a clever bald man, afraid the crowd would make a classic human error—focusing on their own interests while expecting others to sacrifice for the collective good—yelled out a few times, which served as a warning.
Among the five thousand people, participation was off the charts. At least three thousand were firing from a distance. Even the old ladies and grandpas were using the money they made from selling bricks dropped by ducks and geese to buy grey-grade bows and arrows to shoot rats.
Because the rat swarm was so dense, there was no need to worry about accuracy. It was basically one arrow, one rat. For the stronger players, whose arrows had greater piercing power, it wasn't uncommon to kill a dozen with a single shot. Take Wang Jiu, for example—one of her arrows could pierce through a pile of rats from top to bottom, killing dozens.
In truth, they couldn't escape either. If the resurrection point was destroyed and the strong players fled, if they ran into another rat swarm and couldn't fly, they would most likely be trapped and eaten alive until only their bones remained.
However, the resurrection point's integrity was still steadily decreasing.
"What do we do? Some rats are still digging through."
"It's mainly because there aren't enough homesteads."
"Fuck, this Dog System! Our village has several thousand people, and only four have houses?!"
"She's not from our village, she's from the next one over."
"…"
Then the numbers were even more dismal.
But it's not like they could dig into the ground to fight the rats, right?
"Does anyone have magic skills? Fuck, we're all level 10, and still no one has an AoE magic skill."
Jiang Kaikai cursed, but Zhao Shanxiao coldly shot down the idea: "In your dreams. Anyone who could get a class skill drop is already level 10 themselves and not short on cash. Why would they put an AoE skill up for sale?"
That was true. The game's class progression was completely open, and any skill could be learned. This led to very few class skills being sold, especially in the early stages. Basically, no one would sell them.
But as a result, the few level-ten people here were all single-target attackers, with limited killing power.
What could they do? Only 5 minutes had passed, and the integrity had already plummeted to 30%. There were still fifteen minutes to go.
It felt like they wouldn't make it.
Everyone was anxious and impatient. Xie Lu was also searching for a way out of the crisis, and he knew Wang Jiu must be doing the same.
At that moment, Wang Jiu was letting Liao Luo's second wave of blood, watching the rats surge forward one after another while scanning the surroundings.
Suddenly, she jumped from the roof into the house.
What was she doing?
She looked somewhat pleased.
Oh, could it be she had a solution?
After filling with anticipation... everyone was soon collectively shocked. Even Xie Lu's eye twitched.
Because—she was harvesting vegetables.
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