readsfreenovel Chapter 162, A Great Harvest!
Chapter 162, A Great Harvest!
And so, a group of "human-shaped flower pots" and the little mushrooms on their bodies worked together to fight against the increasingly ferocious swarm of bats.
After an unknown amount of time, and at the cost of numerous injuries, the group finally managed to clear the bats from the wall. One by one, the bats fell to the ground, turning into wisps of black smoke and vanishing without a trace, as if they had never been there at all.
Strangely enough, no one knows what kind of mysterious mechanism is in this black tower, but even after all the bats on this wall died, the bats in other places remained motionless, as if they had been frozen in place, quietly staying in their previous sleeping state.
Lin Yue looked at everyone and saw that they all had injuries, some with scratches on their faces from bat claws, from which blood was seeping out; others had several cuts on their arms and legs, and their clothes were soaked with blood.
Lin Yue also felt a little reluctant, so she quickly took out the food she had prepared earlier from the insulated lunch box, picked out the sizzling, fragrant roasted snake meat, and gave each of them a skewer.
"Everyone, sit down and rest for a while. Eat something to replenish your health and strength," Lin Yue said, urging everyone to sit down. After distributing the food, she was exhausted and plopped down on the ground, letting out a long sigh of relief.
As soon as she sat down, Lin Yue suddenly felt something poking her bottom, and the sensation was quite noticeable. Curious, she reached under and pulled out an upgrade stone!
Lin Yue couldn't help but widen her eyes and examine the upgrade stone carefully.
It really is an upgrade stone! This one definitely dropped when you killed a bat!
Good heavens! She wondered why these bats disappeared after she killed them, without even leaving a single ordinary material. Turns out they dropped something big! No wonder everyone says there's treasure in the Black Tower. To find such a good thing so early in the game is amazing!
Lin Yue instantly became excited. Her eyes, which had been drooping due to fatigue, became bright and sparkling. She even forgot about the roasted snake meat in her hand and quickly lowered her head to carefully search the ground.
However, the bats' drops weren't as outrageous as Lin Yue had initially imagined. Upgrade stones were the rarest among them, and after a lot of hard work, the group only managed to get 3. There were also space stones, a total of 9. Besides that, the most numerous were small, transparent pebbles about the size of a thumb. After working together and carefully searching the area, the group found a total of 133 of them.
According to Xiao Bing, these small pebbles are called mulberry wood stones in their area. Don't underestimate their small size; they have many uses.
Because of its lightweight texture, it's almost weightless to hold, yet extremely sturdy, making it a particularly popular defensive material on their floating islands. On the island, simply taking this mulberry wood stone out can be exchanged for all sorts of good things; it can be considered a kind of alternative currency.
Lin Yue wasn't stingy; she simply divided the stones equally among everyone. Each person received one space stone, and each person received 20 mulberry wood stones, with Lin Yue taking a few for herself. As for the upgrade stones, since there were so few of them, Lin Yue kept them all for later.
But this is only temporary, after all, there are still quite a few bats here! We can definitely get more later.
After this unexpected and substantial gain, the crowd, who had just been seething with hatred for these bats, now had a complete 180-degree change in attitude.
The way they looked at the bats was so gentle it was almost tender, as if the bats were no longer troublesome monsters, but a flock of golden hens, and everyone was scheming how to squeeze more benefits out of them.
Unable to contain his excitement, Xiao Shu spoke first: "Sister Lin Yue, Brother Bing, shall we kill another batch? These bats have so many good things on them, it would be a huge loss if we didn't kill a few more batches."
As soon as he said this, everyone else nodded in agreement, their eyes fixed intently on Lin Yue, filled with anticipation. Xiao Bing was clearly also tempted, his eyes gleaming with eagerness as he stared intently at Lin Yue, waiting for her to make a decision.
Lin Yue was also weighing the options in her mind. No one can have too many good things, but right now... Lin Yue thought for a moment and checked her mission time. There were still 21 hours left before she could complete her mission to succeed as the island lord.
Lin Yue pursed her lips, thought for a moment, and finally nodded, saying, "At most two more hours. If we haven't found any useful clues in these two hours, then we need to think of other ways quickly and not waste too much time on this."
Two hours it is. As soon as everyone heard that they could continue, they immediately stood up with renewed vigor, full of fighting spirit, rubbing their hands together, eager to try.
Having learned from their previous experience, they made sure Lin Yue replanted the dead mushrooms first. Lin Yue skillfully pressed the mushrooms down, and everyone's arms, shoulders, backs, and heads were covered in a purple swath, looking rather comical.
But no one cared about that. Whether it looked good or not didn't matter, as long as it worked! The group, with their little purple helpers, marched proudly toward the direction where the bats were.
Strangely enough, the bats seemed to be divided into sections. If even one was disturbed, all the bats on that wall would instantly open their red eyes and slowly come to their senses. It took about a minute from when they opened their eyes until all the bats were fully awake.
After the initial adjustment period, Lin Yue and her group of seven had become increasingly coordinated, working together like a perfectly synchronized machine, with each person knowing exactly what to do and when to act.
The bats on the second wall were completely wiped out in just 37 minutes thanks to their coordinated efforts. The haul was quite substantial: 2 upgrade stones, 7 space stones, and 143 mulberry wood stones.