I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 62 Waste is shameful.

Tonight they will spend a simple night in this bunker.

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Chen Fan stood on the city wall, his hands gripping the crenellations as he looked up at the light above. The light emanating from the natural ghost fire zone here was brighter and higher than the ghost fires he had encountered before. The main thing to be careful of tonight was that ghostly creatures might jump from the surrounding cliffs into the bottom of the deep pit.

Tonight is also the night when our defenses are at their weakest.

He simply built a few walls that overlapped to form a bunker, and placed a level 3 arrow tower on the walls.

Level 3 arrow towers can be moved and rearranged within the camp area without being wasted.

Once you upgrade your Arrow Fortress to level 4 or higher, you can no longer move or place it freely.

Every little bit helps.

He did not create "ghost fire".

The city wall can only be built within the camp area, but this rule can be broken within the natural fire zone, which is considered half a camp.

of course.

He needs to manually replace the strange stones in this "arrow tower" to provide an energy supply.

Building a level 3 arrow tower requires only 60 Mystic Stones.

For a camp, especially a camp during the rainy season, this level of defense is certainly insufficient.

So Chen Fan stood on the city wall, holding a ghostly green lantern, and began his night watch alone. His plan was simple: tonight, he would keep things simple and rough, and if any powerful monsters broke in, he would use the lantern in his hand to fight them.

This green-grade mourning lantern is far more powerful than a level 4 arrow fortress; two shots can destroy a city wall.

He can still use four shots.

If your strength is weak, use arrow towers; if you have a large number of arrow towers, build a few more.

As for the others, they had already taken turns sleeping inside the hidden bunker.

I barely slept last night, and I've been busy all day today. I'm so tired that I can't keep going.

He's okay.

I managed to doze off for a while in the latter half of last night, and my mental state is barely okay right now.

We'll switch with the person who's awake later.

This night.

Chen Fan kept his mind on edge as he stared at the darkness outside the camp. Without the watchtowers, there was no gray fog to act as a buffer zone, which made him feel somewhat unsafe, especially since he was spending the night in this still unfamiliar place. It was really hard to relax.

Plus.

"bang bang bang"

Amid the sound of rain, another crackling sound, like firecrackers, rang out. This sound had already occurred several times that night. He initially thought it was the strange creatures jumping down from the surrounding cliffs, but the strange creatures never rushed into the camp.

After a cup of tea.

Outside the camp, the sound of limbs scraping against the ground could be heard. Judging from the sound, there was only one strange creature, and it was a large one at that.

But the other side did not break into the camp for a long time.

It's like observing.

Judging from the sound, the other person would stay in one place for a while to observe, and then move to another place to continue observing.

Feeling the coolness of the rain, Chen Fan gripped the eerie green lantern in his hand with a slightly tense expression. If the other party dared to break into the camp, he would activate the mourning lantern to deliver a fatal blow.

The two sides remained deadlocked for a long time.

Until late into the night, the other side made no actual move to break into the camp, not even a probe, but simply observed.

Meanwhile, the lame monkey and the others had mostly fallen asleep.

When it was his turn to keep watch, he gave a few instructions before lying down in the hidden soldier's cave, where exhaustion overwhelmed him.

I don't know how much time passed, until the darkness above receded like the tide, and dawn broke.

Chen Fan, who had just woken up and was keeping watch with the lame monkey and the others, breathed a sigh of relief. The most dangerous night was over, and the big guy that had been watching them all night had not managed to break into the camp.

Once the campsite is settled by tomorrow night, I can finally get a good night's sleep.

I've been sleeping in short bursts of fragmented sleep these past few days.

It made him almost suffer from a nervous breakdown.

My head is starting to hurt.

at this time--

"Stationmaster."

He heard the lame monkey's voice and looked in the direction the lame monkey was pointing. He saw that there were many strange creature corpses at the bottom of the cliffs all around, as many as seventy or eighty of them. They were all smashed to pieces and were dead beyond any doubt.

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Chen Fan was slightly taken aback and looked up at the cliff that was hundreds of meters high. He had been thinking about this last night. The vitality of low-level monsters is not very strong. Wouldn't they die if they jumped from such a height?

Now we have the answer: death.

That would be a fatal fall.

"A big fish."

He looked at the big fish beside him: "Has this ever happened in your village before?" "Yes." The big fish nodded: "But it only happens during the rainy season. During the rainy season, you can always hear the sound of the strange creature falling to the bottom of the cliff at night. However, you usually can't see the body after dawn. You can only see the remaining sticky blood."

"The monster that jumped off the cliff on the night the village was destroyed did not die from the fall."

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Chen Fan nodded, his eyes narrowing slightly as he looked at the corpses. Perhaps the usual strange creature corpses were eaten by that big guy outside the camp last night. Last night, when they discovered outsiders, they were cautious and didn't make any rash moves.

Without thinking further, he turned to face the crippled monkey and his group: "Crippled monkey, you come back to the old camp with me. The rest of you, you clean up this place."

"Dispose of those strange corpses."

"The houses here have all been bulldozed."

"clear."

Wang Mazi and the others nodded in agreement.

The houses in this village are built of mud and stone, mixed with sap collected from a tree on the mountain as a thickener. They are good at resisting rain, but not resistant to hammering.

It's just dawn.

Chen Fan and the lame monkey then drove the tricycle back towards the old camp.

The old campsite and the new campsite are 17 kilometers apart as the crow flies.

That is 1.7 meters.

Before leaving the old camp yesterday afternoon, he didn't waste yesterday's free quota. He built a 10,000-meter copper pipe while traveling. Today, he only needs to add the last 7000 meters to connect the two camps.

Credit limits don't accumulate.

It will expire if not used on the same day.

Waste is shameful.

With the reduced load, the tricycle became much faster.

"Master."

The lame monkey, who was powering the tricycle from behind, suddenly hesitated and asked, "Do you want to build your own family?"

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Chen Fan, who was in front, turned his head to look at the lame monkey, paused for a moment, and then continued, "No."

"Families possess a natural bloodline cohesion and exclusivity."

"In our current camp, there is not a single person of the same bloodline as me. Moreover, many special cultivators are randomly awakened and cannot be obtained through hard work. The family power model is not suitable for the Eternal Night Continent. Even if the recruited retainers are sincere, they will always feel that they are not part of the family and that they are outsiders."

"What I want to build is a force of my own, regardless of bloodline. As long as someone is capable, loyal, and willing to contribute to the camp, that's all that matters."

"The camp will then absorb it."

"That way, even people from other families won't feel like they don't belong to this faction."

"As the camp develops, the number of people in the camp will increase."

"There aren't many people I can completely trust."

"And you, lame monkey."

“You are the only person I can completely trust. I hope you can train with Zhou Mo and become a powerful cultivator to protect me. I will also give you more resources.”

"I..." The lame monkey paused for a moment, then reacted, his excitement mixed with trepidation, and said, "Can I do it? But I'm just a lame man."

"So what if someone is lame? I've seen people who were blind and had lost an arm, yet they still practiced martial arts and became great heroes."

Chen Fan smiled and turned to look at the lame monkey.

"I saw your skills before the rainy season, and they were quite impressive."

"I believe you."

"You must also believe in yourself."

"You know, only those who believe they can change the world can actually change the world."

"Ok!"

The lame monkey nodded emphatically, his eyes filled with excitement and determination, and his movements became even more nimble.

After a while.

The lame monkey's indistinct and confused voice came again in the rain.

"Um, young master, I never actually thought about changing the world."