Chapter 375 - 170: "Uncle Liu! I, Shao Qiu, I’m fucking back!

Chapter 375: Chapter 170: "Uncle Liu! I, Shao Qiu, I’m fucking back!

On the slowly moving City Wall below, several structures composed of white lines abruptly materialized on the previously empty ramparts as they passed under the Flying Ship. They then quickly solidified, landing on the City Wall.

The once-bare City Wall...

...was suddenly bristling with menace.

According to his plan, the Godslaying Cannon was to be the main City Defense Building for the next great battle. Built at great cost, there was one placed every 20 meters.

The resource consumption of an Anti-Aircraft Cannon was the same as a Godslaying Cannon, but it was a lower priority, so he built one every 100 meters.

The numbers were very precise.

But his eyes weren’t rulers, and he could hardly eyeball a precise 20-meter distance. Therefore, during the days he was away, the Logistics Pavilion had specially surveyed the entire Jiangbei Defense Line and marked out numerous points.

"Red dots" indicated positions for Godslaying Cannons, one every 20 meters.

"Green dots" indicated positions for Anti-Aircraft Cannons, one every 100 meters.

"Black dots," located at the foot of the City Wall, were for Soul-Devouring Sculptures, one every hundred meters.

"Yellow dots," also at the foot of the City Wall, were for creating Ghost Fire. The Ghost Fire wouldn’t be lit upon creation. Instead, it would be connected via Copper Pipes so that when the Jiangbei Defense Line was activated, it would all ignite instantaneously to extend the defenses’ range.

The Logistics Pavilion had already marked all these points perfectly.

All he had to do was build according to the markings.

A perfect ratio.

This method was far more efficient.

Just then—

Shao Qiu, who had walked beneath the Flying Ship, suddenly leaped into the air. Tapping his feet lightly in the air as if on invisible steps, he rose from the ground and landed steadily on the deck. He strode over to Chen Fan, glanced at the buildings materializing on the City Wall below, and asked hesitantly, "Domain Lord, you were looking for me?"

’The Domain Lord clearly summoned me for a reason. But he’s busy constructing buildings right now... I’m not sure if I should interrupt.’

"Mm."

Chen Fan nodded lightly. Continuing to create the buildings, he said casually, "You’ve been at No. 7 Defense Line for half a year now. Tell me about it. Tell me everything you’ve learned."

"Yes, sir."

Shao Qiu’s expression turned serious. He took a small notebook from his pocket, glanced down at it for a moment, and then began his report. "On this trip, I gathered a great deal of information."

"No. 7 Defense Line is not on the front lines of the Eternal Night Continent. Rather, it’s a secondary defense line in the rear."

"The Ghost Tides it faces can’t compare to the front lines, but they are still the largest I’ve ever seen in my life. Even outside the rainy season, the regular Ghost Tides are overwhelming."

"Tens of millions of Ghost Objects emerge from the sea after nightfall, climbing onto land to attack the defense line, heedless of their own destruction."

"No. 7 Defense Line is 97 kilometers long in total."

"Their most common turret is a Green Level turret called the ’Sword Rain Tower.’ It doesn’t require any Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to upgrade to Max Level, and it costs 100,000 Ghost Stones to build one."

"One is placed every ten meters."

"It’s an area-of-effect type of turret, mainly used to deal with the extremely numerous Ghost Tides."

"In addition, there’s another structure, the ’Dark Tower.’ It’s a Yellow Level City Defense Building, with one built every thousand meters. It’s used to deal with the Great Ghosts within the Ghost Tide. It has a single-target attack of immense power, and its consumption is equally immense."

"Besides those, there are also a number of Anti-Aircraft Cannons and other defenses."

"In a vast, open area outside No. 7 Defense Line, they have planted ’Ghost Tomatoes’ on a massive scale. It’s a special type of Ghost Plant. When mature, touching one causes a huge explosion. It takes a year to mature, cannot be moved, and will automatically pop out of the ground when ripe."

"After the rainy season ends, No. 7 Defense Line arranges for people to sow large quantities of ’Ghost Tomato’ seeds outside the City Wall. By the time the next rainy season is about to arrive, they will have just matured, ready to meet the first major Ghost Tide of the season."

"As for the Ghost Stone supply for No. 7 Defense Line, it mainly comes from three sources."

"First."

"Killing Ghost Objects. The Ghost Stones obtained from killing Ghost Objects outside the rainy season can sometimes completely cover the defense line’s daily expenses. They can even save the surplus Ghost Stones for the next rainy season."

"Second."

"Support from the Eternal Night Hall. However, the Eternal Night Hall rarely provides Ghost Stones directly. For example, before this rainy season, many factions on the Guandong Plain refused to support No. 7 Defense Line with Ghost Stones."

"The Eternal Night Hall temporarily dispatched someone from a nearby region who arrived on the Guandong Plain via Flying Ship and forcefully confiscated the entire Ghost Stone reserves of all the factions there."

"And this action also led to..."

"...when No. 7 Defense Line was breached during the rainy season, the various factions on the Guandong Plain were virtually powerless to resist. The turrets on their city walls fell silent after firing for only a short time, having exhausted their Ghost Stones."

"Of course, even if they had had ample Ghost Stones, it would have been useless. Once the Undersea Ghost Tide broke through the defense line and reached the mainland, an ordinary faction’s city wall would have stood no chance of stopping it."

"Third."

"Support from the various other factions. This is the smallest source of Ghost Stones."

"..."

Chen Fan nodded slowly. After a moment’s pause, he frowned slightly and asked, "Do you have any idea what the daily Ghost Stone consumption of No. 7 Defense Line is?"

"I don’t know the exact figure; I didn’t have access to that information," Shao Qiu said, thinking. "However, No. 7 Defense Line doesn’t have Copper Pipes. The Ghost Stones consumed by the turrets have to be replenished manually."

"I observed the consumption of one turret."

"A single Sword Rain Tower consumes about 700 Ghost Stones per day."

"No. 7 Defense Line has a total of 9,700 Sword Rain Towers. If all the Sword Rain Towers on the line were activated, the daily consumption of Ghost Stones would be around 6.8 million."

"And that’s before adding in other miscellaneous expenses."