BXBX NOVEL Chapter 272 - 208: Defending the Homeland! The Secret of the Time-Space Rift!
[Level: LV59 (For Professionists of LV59 and below)]
[Admission: No limit]
[Difficulty: Increases with time]
[Restrictions: Only support
[Description: A land touched by a mysterious breath. Its creatures have been transformed into alien beasts that only know to devour humans. Your task is to protect the last homeland of mankind!]
[Main Task: Defend the Homeland!]
[Task explanation: Alien beasts will attack the last human home like a tidal wave. You need to rely on your support ability to assist the last of humans to resist the invasion of the alien beasts.]
[Defend for at least thirty days or the entire world of humans and our home will be flooded by the alien beasts, and even the human base will be affected.]
A figure, Zheng Cheng, slowly appeared in a land with a gloomy sky.
Looking around, the sky was dark and the land was barren, with large dense forests growing on both sides.
He is currently located on a low hill, about three kilometers away, an area filled with a surging black mist.
“This is the secret realm of defending the homeland?”
Zheng Cheng muttered and recalling the information he had collected, he turned around.
Behind him, stood a small thatched cottage.
Upon entering the cottage, a triangular crystal was indeed standing upright in the middle, quietly floating in the air.
“A summoning crystal…”
At the same time, lines of text again appeared before Zheng Cheng’s eyes.
These are the rules of the secret realm of defending the homeland!
[Welcome, Professionist, to the secret realm of defending the homeland. Always obey the following rules!]
[1., Protect your home crystal at all times. Once it is destroyed, your mission will be considered a failure!]
[2., Be aware that any skills with attack effects will be forbidden within the home!]
[3., You can increase your summoned units by collecting life crystals and upgrade your home crystal by collecting wood and iron ore to summon higher-level troops.]
[4., Each time you summon troops, there is a chance to summon a ‘heroic unit’. The success rate of the hero unit being summoned: One in a hundred thousand.]
[5., Your troops can absorb soul power by killing alien beasts to upgrade, but different level troops have level caps and cannot break through the level cap.]
[6., After killing the boss of the alien beasts, there is a chance to get a heroic crystal, which can be used to summon a heroic unit. Hero units have no upgrade limit.]
[7., After killing the alien beasts, there is a certain chance to drop the architectural blueprints. Please prepare enough wood and crystals beforehand.]
[8., There is a chance that a life essence will be dropped after killing the alien beasts, which can be used to raise the hero’s star level.]
[9., As you progress with the star level killed and time passes, the coverage of your home will expand.]
[10., The home level limits the number of troop units, so please upgrade your home level as soon as possible.]
[Good luck.]
These rules appeared in front of Zheng Cheng. Even though he knew them well before, he still read them carefully.
He then reached out and touched the summoning crystal, and another line of text appeared before his eyes.
[Name: Home Crystal]
[Attribute: Time Rift]
[Function: Summon corresponding life]
[Host: Zheng Cheng]
[Rank: LV1]
[Currently Unit: 0/10]
[Resources: 0 (with 10 units of free summoning resources)]
[Affiliated Building: None]
[Durability: 100/100]
[Tip: 100 units of iron ore, 10 units of space crystal needed to upgrade to LV2]
“Hmmm, only a first-ranked home crystal, all other data also being 0 … huh?”
Zheng Cheng’s pupils contracted slightly as he stared intently at the “attribute” column of the home crystal.
“Time Rift!”
“The home crystal is actually a time rift!”
“The function is to summon corresponding life entities…”
He quickly pulled out something from his chest, a ‘creature’ like a jelly, slumped in his palm.
A world marvel!
The reward from the joint Professional College entrance examination.
It needs to swallow time rifts to heal and grow; he had been searching for information on time rifts.
Unexpectedly, he got the answer here.
All of a sudden.
The world marvel in his hand seemed to be enticed by the “food”, it actually began to wriggle.
Towards the direction of the home crystal!
Zheng Cheng quickly stuffed the world marvel back, this home crystal was the key item for him to complete the secret realm.
If this was swallowed by the world marvel, wouldn’t it be disastrous?
“I didn’t expect the home crystal to be a world marvel. It seems that there are secrets here that I don’t know about. Unfortunately, there is only one home crystal… huh?”
Zheng Cheng’s pupils moved slightly: “No! It is not just one!”
“The subjects of this secret realm examination are the students of Beijing University’s Support College, and some students from Specialized Colleges, at least there are more than two thousand people.”
“Doesn’t that mean, there are over two thousand home crystals here?”
“No no no…”
Zheng Cheng still shook his head vigorously: “Those all belong to someone, and they are all classmates, it’s not very good to grab…but if they voluntarily give up, wouldn’t…”
“Forget it, the priority now is to defend the homeland first.”
“Once the troops under my command become stronger, I’ll figure out how to scout the surroundings.”
With this thought in mind, he placed his hand on the home crystal again.
“Summon the troops!”
As soon as the words came out, the home crystal began to flicker with faint light.
Ten figures slowly appeared before his eyes.
“I wonder if I can summon a hero unit? It’s a one in a hundred thousand chance…”
A few moments later, the bright light dissipated. Ten human figures appeared before my eyes.
They were East Asians, short in height, and gaunt in complexion. They were dressed in rough cloth, probably in their early twenties, but they looked like soulless corpses without any morale.
Three held sickles, three axes, while the remaining four were unarmed.
Zheng Cheng frowned, “It seems like these soldiers are just one-star… Human Race laborers?”
“I’m so unlucky. Not only did I fail to summon a hero unit, but I also couldn’t even summon decently powerful Human Race civilians!”
“Human Race laborers are considered the worst amongst the one-star units.”
With a flash in his eyes, the attributes of one of the Human Race laborers who held a sickle appeared before him.
[Name: Zhang San]
[Race: Human Race]
[Type of Soldier: Laborer]
[Star Rating: One Star]
[Level: LV1 (Limit: LV10)]
[Host: Zheng Cheng]
[Physique: 3]
[Strength: 2]
[Agility: 2]
[Spirit: 1]
[Morale: 20]
[Loyalty: 60]
[Hunger Level: 60]
[Skill 1: Logging LV3. Years of working have granted Human Race Laborers exceptional abilities in felling trees, gathering grass, and other related tasks. When logging, proficiency increases by an additional +1.]
The attributes of the remaining nine Human Race laborers did not differ much.
Looking at these ten human laborers, Zheng Cheng’s mouth twitched unconsciously.
Are these supposed to be soldiers?
Damn it!
Their four-dimensional attributes are even worse than those of a ten-year-old child on Blue Star!
Moreover, their morale is a pitiful 20 points, indicating a high probability of their fleeing during combat.
Their loyalty is only 60 points, barely meeting the standard for not fleeing.
Their hunger level is also 60 points, indicating they could only work continuously for about an hour or so.
Once the hunger level reaches 80 points, they would start to slack off.
When it reaches 90 points, they would begin to feel dizzy and weak, hallucinating and unable to work.
Can they resist the Alien Beasts?
They’ll probably starve to death before the Alien Beasts come!
Forget it, I didn’t plan to rely on them anyway.
“We have come to serve, my Lord!”
A few moments later, under the leadership of Zhang San, all ten Human Race laborers knelt down and saluted Zheng Cheng.
“Stand up~”
Zheng Cheng waved his hand. From the information he had acquired beforehand, he knew that these summoned members of the Human Race would regard him as their leader, general, or similar position.
If he treated them well, cared for them, or impressed them with his leadership, enhancing their morale and loyalty, they could display their greatest combat power.
If he regarded them as cannon fodder and exploited them, their morale and loyalty would drastically decrease.
Once loyalty drops below 60 points, there’s a certain chance they would desert!
“You six, go to the forest for logging.”
Zheng Cheng pointed at the six men armed with sickles and axes and ordered, “The remaining four, go into the forest to find wild vegetables and fruits. Eat until you’re full.”
Zhang San looked puzzled, “Sir, the Alien Beasts will attack our home base in half an hour. Shouldn’t we be defending it?”
Zheng Cheng waved his hand, “No need, I’ll handle it.”
Upon hearing this, the eyes of all ten laborers changed, and they said in unison, “Yes, sir!”
The ten men left in a group towards the nearby forest. It was only then that Zheng Cheng noticed their morale and loyalty had all decreased by varying amounts from 1-3 points.
“Damn it!”
Zheng Cheng cursed quietly, “They don’t trust me…”
Normally, all ten one-star units would go foraging for food together to boost their morale and loyalty, reduce hunger level, and preserve their strength for the first wave of Alien Beast attacks.
During the first wave of Alien Beast attacks, there’s a high chance they would drop various supplies.
As long as they had supplies, the strength of the laborers could be enhanced.
Like a snowball effect, this could steadily establish a stronger base of power.
But now he has no choice, he can’t let these laborers defend the home base.
If anyone got injured, their morale and loyalty would drop rapidly.
Taking advantage of this time, Zheng Cheng made a complete tour of the areas covered by the dark fog.
The home base is located in the center of a hillside. Its surrounded by gentle slopes, which is easier to defend.
Moreover, on the southern edge of the home base where the dark fog ends, he heard the sound of flowing water. There might be a river there.
The west side is a dense forest.
Zhang San and the nine other laborers are all there logging and searching for food.
The front of the home base is the north.
As for the east, there’s nothing there.
The home base is not large, about 10,000 square meters, roughly equivalent to 1.5 football fields.
After inspecting the area, Zheng Cheng went to the center of the home base and activated the Central Radar Life Monitoring Technique.
In an instant, a large 3D map appeared in his mind.
It covered an area of three kilometers in radius!
When he saw the map in his mind, Zheng Cheng’s pupils slightly constricted: “What is this…”
On the map, the place where Zheng Cheng stood was green.
But within tens of kilometers, they were full of densely packed red light points!!!