Tower Defense: Public Enemy

Chapter 4 You're asking for it

Lei Chi had already adjusted his pain sensitivity to 0.1%. He squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, wondering if the system would compensate him more if he were beaten to death.

When players are attacked in the world of Tata, their health will decrease. When their health reaches zero, they are dead and will drop at least one level. They can be revived after spending ten minutes in the "dark room". There will be no situation where being injured will affect their mobility.

Wu Jingang and his three companions quickly reduced Lei Chi to a mere sliver of health. Chen Hanxiang and Ma Dongqi lifted him up, and Wu Jingang shouted at him, "Trash, now you know how powerful you are, right? What do you have to say for yourself now?!"

Lei Chi said, "A simp, a simp, will end up with nothing!"

"You're fucking asking for it!"

boom!

Wu Jingang punched Lei Chi in the abdomen, instantly turning Lei Chi into a white light.

"Little trash, only 100 HP, he'll be dead with just a little effort!"

Wu Jingang shook his head and smiled. He felt he had wasted his time. Was such a small piece of trash really worth his time?

"Alright, that's all done. Everyone, look around and see if there's anything good in this little trash's camp. Take what you can, and smash what you can't take. We'll be forcibly teleported away in ten minutes. Hurry up!"

"Okay!"

"Hmm, this guy's camp seems a bit unusual!"

"I heard that some high-level players delete their accounts and start over, getting a starting bonus and being able to build extra structures. Could this guy be a pro player starting over?"

"What kind of pro gamer? A pro gamer leaving a little tiger at the door?"

"Why bother with all that? Isn't it better to just grab something?"

"That makes sense!"

"Come and see what this is? A lunchbox making machine! I'll try it with a tomato and egg rice bowl, and wow, it actually worked!"

"Hey, come over here! There's soda here!"

"By the way, have you guys ever eaten in the game?"

"No, I'll just log off and eat when I get hungry!"

"By the way, are these boxed lunches really filling?"

"Who cares? As long as we can take them, we'll take them all..."

Wu Jingang and his three companions then got busy in front of the lunchbox and beverage making machines.

In a player's secret camp, defensive towers, city defense centers, gold mines, and other buildings and attachments are generally invincible and indestructible. The mushroom house in the Thunder Pool, as well as the bound items inside, are also invincible.

In fact, apart from Lei Chi, no other player can enter his mushroom house without his permission.

However, resources and common items, such as gold coins, ores, equipment, and vehicles, can be plundered.

Unfortunately, the game has just started here, and we're completely broke. All we have to offer are some boxed lunches and drinks that we can plunder.

At this point, Lei Chi was already in the "little black room" (a term used to describe a situation where someone is being held in the dark) and counting down to resurrection.

Ten minutes later, he reappeared in front of the mushroom hut, while Wu Jingang and the other three had been forcibly teleported away.

"Ding! Your secret camp has been maliciously invaded by players, and your belongings have been looted!"

"Ding! You have been granted a six-hour protection period. During these six hours, your secret camp cannot be invaded by other players."

"Ding, damage statistics: Camp Master killed, 40 boxed meals lost, 40 bottles of drinks lost!"

"Ding, claim calculation in progress..."

"Ding! Due to your low insurance premium and low camp defense index, although the camp has suffered significant losses, the maximum compensation you can receive is a compensation chest worth 20 gold coins. Would you like to claim it?"

"A compensation chest worth 20 gold!"

Lei Chi opened his eyes.

Is it that exciting?

A 20-fold return!

20 gold coins. How long would it take to dig the ground yourself?

"We've made a killing! We've made a killing!"

Lei Chi quickly responded to the system and retrieved the claims treasure chest.

With a thud, a wooden treasure chest landed right in front of him.

As soon as Lei Chi opened the treasure chest, the system notification sounded in his mind again: "Ding, one insurance policy, one city at peace. No fear of invasion, worry-free reconstruction. You have opened the compensation treasure chest and obtained camp reconstruction materials: one Tier 1 Beast Tower construction blueprint, five gold coins, and a good pickaxe."

"Nothing more to say, five stars!"

Lei Chi happily took out the blueprint for the Level 1 Beast Tower from the treasure chest. This kind of blueprint is bound to the user upon acquisition, generating specific information. It turned out to be another blueprint for the Little Tiger.

"A little tiger it is, it'll make a perfect pair!"

Lei Chixin said it was easy to say, and there was no room for criticism. He put away the blueprint, then the gold coins, and finally looked at the [useful pickaxe].

[A Useful Pickaxe: A special item, bound to the secret camp of Thunder Pool. When mining gold coins with this pickaxe, there is a 30% chance of a double critical hit.]

"Double critical hit, what does that mean? A gold-digging critical hit, where normally you dig for one copper coin, but now you get two copper coins?"

Lei Chi thought to himself that this thing was good; it could improve the efficiency of gold mining and was a good item. He could understand why it was worth five metals.

After placing the pickaxe into the gold mine shaft, Lei Chi quickly went to check on the lunchbox making machine and the beverage making machine.

"Stealing lunchboxes and drinks, that's a promising career path!"

Lei Chi knew that the reason he was able to obtain the compensation chest worth 20 gold coins was thanks to the stolen lunch boxes and drinks. He wouldn't go hungry because of this; each person could receive 10 lunch boxes every six hours and 20 drinks every six hours, enough to satisfy even a big eater.

"There's a six-hour protection period, so I can't commit insurance fraud continuously. Annoying! Fine, I'll just buy another policy and continue after six hours."

Lei Chi began to ponder how to buy insurance this time. After a moment, he decided to use 3 gold coins to buy insurance and keep the remaining 2 gold coins to wait to be robbed.

Anyway, he didn't know how the system calculated the claims. In short, the more premiums he increased, the higher the defense index was, and the greater the losses he incurred, the more the system would pay out. There was no need to study it too thoroughly.

After placing the second tiger cubs symmetrically, Lei Chi went to mine for gold. Using a good pickaxe, his gold-mining efficiency indeed improved.

When you get tired of digging, you can rest, lie on a deck chair, drink some soda, and enjoy a leisurely life.

Lei Chi was also pondering that insurance fraud and claims were just means to an end. If he wanted to rise in the Tower Defense world, he definitely had to play tower defense and break through wave after wave of monster invasions in order to truly become a big shot.

He's already a Beast Tower player, and that can't be changed, so he can only face reality and try his best to make the Beast Tower stronger.

"What I need right now is a ranged Beast Tower. I think the Porcupine Tower is a ranged Beast Tower, but I haven't heard of any others. There are so few players playing Beast Towers. Hopefully, I can get the Porcupine Tower next time. As for Beast Tower technology, no rush!"

Lei Chi silently made his plans, and after a while, he began to snore and fell asleep.

At this moment, Wu Jingang and his three companions arrived at the Flying Fire Camp's main hall.

Flying Fire Camp is a player guild.

After defeating the 15th wave of monster invasion, players can establish a guild. Once a guild is established, their own secret camp will become the guild camp, which will unlock guild buildings such as the guild hall. Players who join the guild can teleport from their own secret camp to the guild camp.

Joining a guild offers many benefits, such as assisting in defense, faster resource trading, and access to the guild chat group, among others.

Wu Jingang and the other three joined the Flying Fire Camp. They gathered together and were taking stock of their harvest.

"I ate 10 boxed lunches!"

"I bought three bottles of Moutai!"

"Haha, look at what I made, abalone rice!"

"I never knew there was such a thing in games. Eating it keeps you full, and you don't need to log off!"

"Looks like I'll have to visit that kid's camp more often!"

"Damn it, hand over the braised pork ribs, abalone rice, and milk tea!" Wu Jingang suddenly shouted.

Chen Hanxiang asked, "Brother Wu, what's wrong?"

Ma Dongqi added, "Yes, everyone fought for it with their own abilities, why should we give it to you!"

Wu Jingang said, "Stop talking nonsense, give it all to me. This stuff is so good, I'll give it to my little sister to try, she'll definitely like it!"