I summon the heroic spirits of China in the infinite world.

As the first rays of sunlight shone down, a message popped up before Li Ming's eyes.

[27 days until the great disaster strikes.]

[Summoners surviving on this map: 91/100.]

"People are starting to get eliminated."

He could tell that, in terms of both quantity and frequency of invasion, the monsters last night were significantly stronger than those the day before.

I don't know if the intensity will continue to increase tonight, so I have to be careful.

Therefore, the most important thing right now is to set up the city walls.

So he measured the radius of the cubic stone with his footsteps, and found that its circumference was about 90 meters.

However, there are two issues to consider when placing city walls.

The first question is about area.

The level 1 wall in hand is long enough to encompass the entire cubic stone area.

But it can't be arranged like that.

Because a portion of the area needs to be reserved as a buffer space.

If the area around the cubestone is completely isolated by the city wall, then if the heroic spirit wants to fight the monsters outside the city wall, it will have to leave the area around the cubestone, which is equivalent to giving up its home advantage.

The second problem is entry and exit.

The height of a Level 1 wall is 2 meters. If it is completely enclosed, climbing back and forth would be quite a hassle for him.

But this is a minor issue and nothing to worry about.

What we really need to be concerned about is that if the city walls do not have any reserved entrances, then when monsters attack, the most likely scenario is that they will launch attacks randomly from various directions.

With only four Heroic Spirits at the moment, it's easy to overlook one's own strengths and weaknesses.

Therefore, it would be better to proactively leave an entrance and exit, intentionally guiding the enemy towards it.

Having figured out the answers to these two questions, Li Ming began to take action.

First, the 110-meter [Level 1 city wall] that I had was integrated and then split.

"First, arrange the main structure."

He took out a 70-meter-long [Level 1 city wall].

With a gentle squeeze, the 70-meter-long phantom appeared in the sky above the territory.

Then, under his control, the illusory city wall began to change shape and move continuously.

[Do you wish to spend 210 cubic coins to construct this building?]

"Yes."

Once it was confirmed, the phantom that had already landed solidified into a physical form.

The main structure arranged by Li Ming was a quadrilateral with a small gap.

The gap is less than 2 meters wide, allowing at most two or three sword-and-shield skeletons to pass through at the same time.

He originally wanted to make the gap narrower, but considering that some monsters might not be smart enough, if the gap was too small and they ignored it, then his purpose of actively diverting the flow would not be achieved.

[Do you wish to spend 24 cubic coins to construct this building?]

"Yes."

The second section of the city wall was only 8 meters long and was placed behind a small gap.

Like a screen, it forms a T-shaped intersection with the main city wall.

The advantage of this arrangement is that it prevents us from being surrounded by monsters and attacked from both sides, like last night.

With four Heroic Spirits of my own, I can guard two on each side.

With a passageway 2 meters wide, placing the [Stone Monkey] there would definitely attract a lot of firepower, providing a good opportunity to gain experience.

After setting up the city walls, the next step is naturally to enchant them.

First, the main city wall is enchanted with the [Zhang Fei] effect.

[Intimidation]: Zhang Fei can reduce the chance of the enchanted target being attacked.

This would reduce the chances of monsters attacking the main city wall, thus increasing the chances of them entering through the entrance.

Currently, Zhang Fei's enchantment level can cover a continuous 100-meter city wall, which is more than enough for the main city wall, which is only 70 meters long.

As for the screen wall at the entrance, it was enchanted with the effect of [Guan Yu].

[Loyalty]: When the enchanted target is attacked by an enemy, Guan Yu's attack power increases by 20%.

If a monster bumps into or accidentally damages a wall during battle, Guan Yu's attack power bonus will be triggered immediately.

"Okay, that's perfect."

"Territory development has temporarily come to a halt."

Satisfied with the completed city wall, Li Ming decided to take a nap first.

After all, he didn't want to be like last night, when the monsters attacked while he was still asleep.

Of course, this time spent sleeping shouldn't be wasted.

Before going to sleep, he sent out the straw doll that had been resurrected.

The purpose was to first conduct reconnaissance of the goblin camp.

The time it takes for it to go and come back is almost enough for it to get a good night's sleep.

"Grass!"

Several hours had passed by the time dawn broke and the sound woke me up.

"You've worked hard."

He stretched and saw that the scarecrow was a mess.

The grass was cut down in many places, and several arrows were stuck in its back.

However, since they had returned to their territory, new grass was growing from the cut wound at a minute rate visible to the naked eye.

"Tell me, what's going on over there?"

"Damn it! Damn it!"

So the straw man started dancing and gesturing wildly.

"Are there archers among those goblins? That's a bit of a problem."

As dawn listened, she helped pull the arrow out of the back of its head.

The goblins were hiding in a cave about 10 kilometers away.

The scarecrow's natural advantage as a creature of grass is that it is not easily attacked by monsters, so it went in to explore and figure out the general structure of the cave.

However, it cannot count, and the sentences used to describe the number of monsters are things like "there are a few here" or "there are a few there", so it cannot determine the exact number.

"Okay, I understand."

Li Ming shook his head helplessly, then asked, "Didn't you say you wouldn't be attacked? Why did you come back covered in injuries?"

"Damn it!"

Mentioning this made the scarecrow even more excited.

"You said you found treasure, but were discovered when you tried to steal it?"

"What kind of treasure is it?"

Dawn took it seriously.

As the spirit of the cubestone, what the straw man considers a treasure must not be worthless.

"Grass!"

The scarecrow used its hands to gesture the shape of a large pile of poop.

"Oh, then it's alright."

Dawn immediately lost interest.

Could it be that my own cube spirit actually likes poop?

This is somewhat off-putting.

Even without any treasure, I still have to clear out this goblin cave.

The reason is that it is too close to his own camp, and he urgently needs more experience to level up.

Especially after last night, both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are close to leveling up.

Furthermore, he obtained two very useful pieces of information from the intelligence brought back by the straw man.

First, the enemy has ranged units.

Secondly, this cave is not dangerous, after all, even a mere straw man cannot kill it.

So Dawn spent a few cubic coins to revive the Stone Monkey ahead of schedule.

Then, following yesterday's routine, he left the straw doll at the camp while setting off with four heroic spirits.

After nearly two hours of travel, he finally arrived at his destination.

The goblin stronghold cave marked on the map.

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