I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 66 "Today is also the last day of reclamation."

"I feel like six nights have passed, right?"

Wang Mazi scratched his head: "It shouldn't be as long as seven nights."

"It's the eighth night."

Zhou Mo put the wooden board back under his buttocks and continued to bite into the dry biscuit in his hand with some emotion: "My little brother Er Gou, who has been with me for a long time, died in the mouth of the pseudo-human monster before the fifth night descended."

"On the sixth night, we encountered the Hanging Ghost."

"On the seventh night, we moved here and spent the night in the natural fire zone."

"On the eighth night, we spent the night in the cave that the stationmaster had newly opened up."

"If we can get through tonight safely, then nine nights will have passed."

“The rainy season usually lasts about 30 days, and we have persisted for a third of the rainy season. Looking at the history of Jiangbei City, we are the first and only people to have done so before.”

"Jiangbei City has a history?" Wang Kui raised an eyebrow.

"Tsk."

Zhou Mo couldn't help but laugh upon hearing this: "Although we've experienced the destruction of several cities, some fragmented information has been passed down. That's how humans are. Even if they know they might not live much longer, they still want to write something down so that future generations will know what they encountered."

"Like you like writing a diary?"

"That's it."

Zhou Mo took out his diary from his pocket and wrote while munching on a dry biscuit: "People always need some hobbies, otherwise life would be too boring. Besides, without people like us, the conditions for creating the Ghost Fire would never have been revealed."

"The version that has been leaked is also the more complex version."

Wang Kui glanced at Chen Fan's back as he built a temporary wooden hut for the night inside the cave and whispered, "I remember there are many kinds of materials needed for the rumored ghost fire, but the station chief didn't use any of them to make the ghost fire."

"It would be nice to have it."

Zhou Mo closed the diary and put it back in his pocket: "For a city built on a natural area of ​​strange fire, those materials are easy to gather. It's just that there are certain requirements. After all, those people also want to make some strange stones. A more streamlined formula will definitely not be easily spread."

at this time--

Chen Fan climbed the city wall.

He glanced at the group of people talking and casually said, "They're all chatting."

"Stationmaster."

Zhou Mo and the others hurriedly got up.

"Alright, go to sleep. I'll keep watch tonight."

"There's no heating right now, it's a bit cold."

"Wear more clothes to bed at night, endure it for a few days, and once the cave is fully excavated, we can start building the basic structures."

"understand!"

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The cave quickly quieted down. Zhou Mo and the others had all gone to sleep in the makeshift huts, leaving only Chen Fan sitting alone on the city wall, gazing at the rainy night outside the cave.

Tonight is the ninth night of the rainy season.

He knows this number better than anyone else.

Others may have been born into a world like this, and although they don't want to die, their long-term living environment has made them very accepting of death. He is different; he still doesn't really want to die.

He wanted to try to survive the rainy season.

If I really can't survive, then there's nothing I can do.

Today the cave has been opened up to a depth of 27 meters. We'll open it up for another day tomorrow, and the cave depth will be enough for our current use. We can slowly open up the rest later.

As for the "Vehicle Workshop".

He didn't intend to place it in this cave; he planned to carve out another cave on the left cliff and house the massive vehicle workshop there.

Time always flies when you're lost in thought.

Or.

It's hard for a person not to overthink in this kind of environment.

"Bang!" The sudden sound of a heavy object falling off the cliff startled him from his reverie, followed by a series of similar sounds.

Chen Fan immediately snapped out of his daze, his eyes fixed on the darkness outside the city walls.

Based on the previous two times.

That crocodile should be here soon.

as predicted.

A short while later, he heard the rustling sound again in the rainy night; the crocodile had once again come to the deep pit in the canyon.

He now strongly suspects that the monsters that fell off the cliff were forced to do so by this crocodile. Otherwise, although most of the monsters lack intelligence, they wouldn't jump off a cliff to their deaths. But this crocodile is clearly strong enough to directly hunt and kill the monsters, so why does it have to use this method to hunt them?

next moment!
The copper pipes are lit, and the watchtower is activated.

The entire canyon and pit offered an unobstructed view, with gray fog replacing the darkness.

He saw the crocodile again at the bottom of the cliff, carefully carrying the corpse of the monster in its mouth, but this time it did not flee quickly, perhaps because it was too hungry to bear it.

Release the strange creature's corpse.

Turning to look at Chen Fan, his lantern-sized pupils were filled with fear and anger. He forced back his terror and opened his blood-red mouth to roar in the rainy night.

"Roar!!"

The sound was so loud that it almost drowned out the sounds of the rainy night.

That sounds very impressive.

but.
The trembling limbs and the tail that kept thrashing and pounding the ground showed the other party's unease, making him appear fierce on the outside but weak on the inside.

He strongly suspected that if he made even the slightest move, the other party would immediately flee.

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Chen Fan remained silent, gently placing the eerie green lantern aside and watching quietly.

They remained locked in this standoff for several breaths.

As if sensing that Chen Fan had no intention of attacking, the crocodile tentatively swallowed a monster's corpse whole. Seeing that Chen Fan still didn't react, it then swiftly devoured all thirty-odd monster corpses.

She looked up at Chen Fan again.

Then, without looking back, it quickly disappeared into the canyon passage. This time, it didn't run as fast or make as much noise, but its tail kept swaying and hitting the ground as it ran.

He could vaguely sense the other party's joy and happiness from the wagging tail.

It's like they're celebrating that they can finally have a good meal tonight.

Long after the crocodile disappeared.

Chen Fan murmured in a daze, "Is there a spatial bag stuffed in my stomach?"

Although this crocodile was relatively large, it was only a few times larger than an ordinary crocodile, and its stomach definitely couldn't hold more than thirty strange creature corpses.
After three nights together.

He already had a general understanding of the crocodile.

It's most likely not a monster; it's powerful but extremely timid. Now there's another one: its stomach can hold a lot of things.

And
Their intelligence is probably not very high.

If the goal was to drive the monster off a cliff, why drive it into a deep pit and have it fall off the cliff? Falling from either side of the canyon passage would be enough to kill it.

The night remained quiet.

There was nothing unusual.

When darkness fell, they had successfully survived their ninth night of the rainy season, with twenty days remaining until its end.

"Work!"

The sound of the wooden house being destroyed by the turret marked the start of a new day of land clearing.

Today is also the last day of clearing the land.

After today.

The initial stage of the rear area has been almost completed.

(End of this chapter)