Folklore: Pre-emptive shelter begins with the stomach.

The fake monsters tried to escape, but the area within the arrow tower's range became their burial ground.

With each kill of the arrow tower, especially due to the attribute bonus, its attack speed increases even further.

Even so, a few pseudo-human monsters still managed to escape, fleeing into the depths of Huanjiang Road. However, 99% of the pseudo-human monsters perished under the arrows of the Arrow Tower, a cold killing machine.

Feng Mo, as the only witness present, saw the entire process.

"Loan already repaid"

Feng Mo looked at the prompt.

The strange calamity that followed Jiang Qing Village unexpectedly led to the construction of his arrow tower overnight.

Even after passing through the Heart Palace of Hammering, Feng Mo was still unable to calm down when he looked at the arrow tower again.

This led him to believe that things like the "trickster" were nothing but petty villains compared to the arrow tower, completely beneath his notice!

Looking at the few remaining pseudo-humanoid monsters fleeing in the distance, Feng Mo also discovered the attack range of the arrow tower, which was about 100 meters.

In the latter half of the night, eerie figures still roamed Huanjiang Road, mostly the usual smiling ghosts and lanky ghosts.

Meanwhile, Feng Mo also built a second arrow tower to strengthen the defenses within his palace.

However, the description of the second arrow tower is also quite unique.

"Upgrade Alone": No other offensive buildings are allowed within 10 meters. Upgrade is possible after completing the stage mission.

Kill 100 monsters (0/100)

Upon seeing this entry, Feng Mo couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

This building is quite remarkable.

It's important to understand that upgrading in stages requires technological research.

The reason Feng Mo is blocking the construction is because he cannot currently fulfill the repayment conditions for building the "research center".

Having this entry is tantamount to ignoring this situation entirely.

By killing enough monsters, you can advance to become a second-tier tower.

Feng Mo had also seen the effect of the first-tier tower.

Whether it's the Pseudo-Human Ghost, the Gauntlet, or the Smiling Ghost, none of them can withstand a single arrow from the tower.

You can imagine how powerful the second-tier arrow tower would be.

Unfortunately, according to Feng Mo's tests, only the kills between buildings with the "repayment conditions" are mutually compatible.

Architectural entries are calculated separately.

Therefore, Feng Mo specially placed the upgraded arrow tower in the backyard of Wuzangmiao, so that it could produce an effect and kill the strange creatures that appeared from the other side as soon as possible.

This way, there will be no blind spots in terms of the safety of the five internal organs.

Similarly, the repayment requirements for "Arrow Towers" have changed somewhat.

The kill count has increased from 20 to 30.

"It seems that the arrow towers are quite special; each additional arrow tower requires a higher kill count," Feng Mo concluded.

However, this is still worthwhile because the repayment terms are universal across buildings.

Whether it's triggering a trap or interacting with different arrow towers, it can increase the repayment progress.

Moreover, two arrow towers mean twice the killing speed.

Even if the repayment conditions are improved, the impact will be minimal. The only thing to consider is the number of strange creatures within a 100-meter radius.

"It doesn't seem eerie enough."

Thinking about this, Feng Mo felt like laughing.

Everyone else is hoping the supernatural won't come, but he complains that there aren't enough supernatural creatures coming.

With this idea in mind, Feng Mo was actually looking forward to the aftershocks of the strange disaster coming from Jiangqing Village the following night.

The two arrow towers were like gods of war.

In the latter half of the night, any strange occurrences hidden in the darkness were all eliminated.

……

Jiangbai Village is located in front of the "Five Zhāngmǐn" (a place name related to the stomach).

It is one of the three temples known as the Temple of Joy and Mourning.

This is a temple that occupies a larger area than the Five Digestives Temple, and has two layers of walls inside and out.

Inside the temple, paper effigies lay askew everywhere, and yellow paper, white silk, and gold ingots used for weddings and funerals were scattered on the ground, as if a great battle had taken place.

Lying among these yellow papers and white silks were several corpses draped in funeral clothes, lying haphazardly.

The air was thick with the smell of blood.

The servants inside the temple didn't care about the environment and were constantly cleaning up the mess left from last night.

Huang Lao Er stood on the high wall and watched the tragedy unfold.

Huang Shang, who was on his back, looked puzzled: "That shouldn't be!"

"Our temple clearly has eerie bonfires; those strange creatures couldn't possibly approach in groups!"

But that's exactly what happened last night.

One night, more than a dozen strange creatures suddenly attacked, and the outer gate of the Xisang Temple was almost breached.

But many people died.

He received no response.

Even his elderly father couldn't answer.

After all, such a situation is extremely rare.

If there is a ghostly bonfire, the supernatural will not approach at night. Even if a supernatural disaster is imminent, at most only one or two supernatural beings will attack the temple.

The eerie campfire will disgust the supernatural and make these mindless guys instinctively leave.

It can be said that the eerie bonfire was the main means for these village shrine guardians and temple masters to resist the supernatural.

But now those methods have failed.

This suggests that a more powerful anomaly has arrived in the vicinity, seemingly commanding these other anomalies...

This is also the reason for the formation of the strange disasters—with powerful and eerie command, they ignored their aversion to the strange campfires.

Huang Lao Er muttered, "This means that a calamity is about to arrive in Jiangbai Village."

Huang Shang turned even paler upon hearing this.

Soon, a servant came running to report on the damage to our stomachs the previous night.

"Temple Master, two of the traps are broken."

"How many more traps do we have, plus our inventory?"

"There are only six left, and some of the runes are even damaged. They might only be able to trigger once or twice before they stop working."

Huang Lao Er sighed softly: "What about the runes on the door? As long as the runes on the door are still there, we still have a chance."

"Still there..."

"That's good, that's good."

"only……"

"What? Just what?"

"The gate was damaged... and 30% of the runes were lost."

Upon hearing this, Huang Lao Er almost fainted.

The reason why runes are effective is because of their intricate patterns.

If the pattern is flawed, the strength will be greatly reduced, especially for defensive runes.

Although there was an outer city wall surrounding it.

But that's to block people, not to stop the supernatural.

Without the runes on the gate, it would have collapsed in an instant.

It can certainly be repaired, but you'll have to go to town and ask the family's resident architect to do it.

But with the looming calamity and architects being so precious, the family clearly wouldn't take that risk.

Just as Huang Lao Er was lost in thought, he sensed that the communication talisman had reacted; it was triggered by Tang Ren from the neighboring Temple of Misfortune.

"Master Huang, are you alright?"

"...Don't even mention it." Old Huang sighed.

"It's the same here; quite a few people have died."

"I'm in an even worse situation; the outer wall probably won't hold out tonight."

"What?" Tang Ren hadn't expected Huang Lao Er's temple to be so dire. "By the way, where's Temple Master Feng?"

"You mean the Third Young Master..." Huang Lao Er recalled the scene when he met Feng Mo yesterday.