Chapter 72
Seeing Ye Bai dodge an attack, the herd of wildebeests, now fully in battle mode, wasted no time in pursuing her.
After rolling away, Ye Bai didn’t even have time to look back. She sprang to her feet and took off running for her life.
The wildebeests moved at twice the speed of a player, and in their frenzied state, they were even faster. Despite Ye Bai creating some distance with her roll, as soon as she started running, the gap began to close rapidly.
Ten meters, eight meters, six meters...
If it weren’t for the 40% speed boost from her Light Feather set, she would have already been caught by the wildebeests.
Just as the lead wildebeest was less than two meters away, she finally dashed through the wooden fence that formed a ‘corridor’ and entered a double-layered square area.
One, two, three—Ye Bai counted the seconds in her mind. With the speed of the wildebeests, three seconds was more than enough for all twenty-eight to enter.
“Close the gate!”
With Ye Bai’s command, the militia outside the wooden fence cut the rope holding the gate.
With a loud ‘bang,’ the reinforced gate slammed down, sealing the square area off from the rectangular one, trapping all twenty-eight wildebeests inside the double-layered wooden fence.
Of course, Ye Bai was also caught inside.
However, at this moment, she was completely unperturbed.
With another roll, Ye Bai slipped into the shadow cast by the wooden fence. As the wildebeests charged in, she activated her skill, Shadow Step.
“Thud!”
Three wildebeests collided with nothing but air, their horns getting stuck in the wooden fence. They shook their heads for a while before finally pulling free.
Meanwhile, Ye Bai had already positioned herself behind a pile of grass outside the wooden fence—her pre-prepared ‘artificial shadow.’
The unique ability of Shadow Step to traverse shadows often allowed her to use it as a teleportation skill that bypassed physical barriers.
Having accomplished this, Ye Bai climbed up to the nearby arrow tower, looking down at the herd of wildebeests trapped within the wooden fence.
“Roo roo roo…”
Confused by the loss of their target, the wildebeests spun around inside the fence. Drawn by the Tree of Creation, they kept butting their horns against one direction, but alas, all their efforts were in vain against the thick double-layered fence.
Seeing this, Ye Bai smiled. The artificial wildebeest trap had worked perfectly!
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Chapter 50
The piercing damage of the wildebeests was devastating against living creatures, but when it came to buildings, it was a different story.
“Thud, thud, thud…”
“Roo roo roo…”
With each impact, the wildebeests’ horns embedded themselves in the wooden fence, and they had to spend time shaking their heads to pull them out.
Moreover, due to the influence of the Tree of Creation, each time they pulled free, it was as if they had forgotten their previous experiences, and they continued to bang against the walls, getting stuck and then pulling their heads out again, repeating the cycle. They looked rather silly, even a bit cute.
As for whether the wooden fence would be damaged, there was no need to worry.
Though made of wood, the fence was classified as a basic defensive structure. Each attack from the wildebeests only chipped away at its durability, causing a maximum of five points of damage, while each section of the fence had a durability of 300. Only specialized siege equipment could effectively destroy such structures.
To be safe, Ye Bai had constructed a double-layered wooden fence, so even if one layer fell, there was still another.
More importantly, defensive structures could be repaired by villagers using tools. If both layers’ durability were low, she could just have another villager come and fix it up, and it would be as good as new.
However, glancing at the sky, Ye Bai realized dawn was approaching, making her feel that these considerations were unnecessary.
Once the sun rose and the effect of the Tree of Creation wore off, the wildebeests would revert to a neutral state. As long as no one attacked them, they wouldn’t even try to break through the wooden fence; they would simply roam around inside.
In this way, Ye Bai had effectively ‘relocated’ the wildebeest spawn point to her own territory.
As for Dennis, who was rushing back to the merchant guild to catch the wildebeests… Ye Bai could only wish him good luck.
“Phew…”
Having dealt with the most pressing issue of the wildebeests, Ye Bai took a deep breath and turned her attention to the rest of her territory.
The wolf pack had long been dealt with, and the wild boars were busy cleaning up the battlefield. Only the brown bears remained, their health steadily declining.
Aside from that, there didn’t seem to be any other monsters stirring around.
Was that it?
Two levels up and just these monsters?
Ye Bai had initially been on guard, anticipating more trouble, but as she waited for the sky to brighten, and finally saw the outline of the new day’s sun, no boss monsters or anything of the sort appeared.
Aside from the brief tension with the wildebeests, the night had passed quite peacefully!
While it was a relief, it also left Ye Bai with a subtle sense of anticlimax.
But thinking it over, it made sense—White Night Village’s upgrade pace was relatively rapid, so the surrounding monsters’ respawn rate hadn’t kept up.
During her first upgrade, Ye Bai hadn’t delayed or run off the enemies; instead, she had been well-prepared, clearing out the nearby beasts. Even beast populations had to follow some basic rules; the previous batch had completely vanished, and it wasn’t like they could reappear in large numbers within just a few days.
As for the wildebeests and the crocodiles that were supposed to be the main attractions of this territory upgrade, one had been trapped by Ye Bai’s trap, and the other had been cleared out in advance while she was opening trade routes. This led to her territory leveling up twice, but all she got were a few big cats and small cats, which felt rather underwhelming in her eyes.
“Phew… Alright then.” Ye Bai stretched and began tidying up after the territory upgrade.
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Meanwhile, in Ruìlán Village.
“Phew…” As the sky finally brightened, signaling the end of the Tree of Creation’s effect, Zeta let out a sigh of relief.
However, when she looked at the state of her territory, tears threatened to spill.
Knowing there would be beast attacks, she had invested a lot of manpower into the blacksmith shop, temporarily crafting basic weapons to distribute to the villagers for defense.
Unlike Ye Bai’s ‘luck,’ the only attackers that night had been wild wolves and wild boars.
Zeta was acutely aware of the villagers’ importance. Thanks to her effective organization, there had been no fatalities among the villagers during the attack, though a few had sustained minor injuries. Zeta even personally took part, killing quite a few wild wolves that had come to assault the Tree of Creation.
As for the wild boars… Zeta still gritted her teeth at the thought.
Due to the territory’s low food reserves, Zeta hadn’t built a food storage cellar; everything was piled outdoors like other materials. She hadn’t anticipated that the wild boars, in their frenzy, would prioritize food above all else.
The wild boar herd that entered Ruìlán Village discovered the food first and didn’t attack the Tree of Creation. Instead, they rushed in and devoured all the meager food supplies in the territory, leaving even the farmland untouched.
Under the effect of the Tree of Creation’s blooming, the crops in the territory’s fields had been hastened to maturity. However, lacking experience and being busy organizing the villagers to craft weapons, Zeta hadn’t immediately harvested those crops.
As a result, during that night, the newly cultivated fields were ravaged by the wild boars, and the crops that had just sprouted were reduced to mere stumps before Zeta could even identify what they were.
Zeta was furious, but she had to prioritize dealing with the troublesome wolf pack and couldn’t attend to the distant wild boars.
By the time she had dealt with the wolves and freed up her hands, the night had passed.
The wild boar herd, having consumed everything edible in the territory, no longer attacked the village, leaving a mess behind as they scattered away!
In this territory upgrade, Zeta’s domain suffered a significant loss of food and spent a considerable amount of resources that should have been used for territory development on crafting weapons. Even the corpses of the wild wolves couldn’t make up for the losses.
To make matters worse, when Zeta opened the technology tree after the upgrade, she found only a market and no buildings related to trade routes.
So… how did Bai Ye manage it?
Zeta logged off, and when she returned to reality, without needing to say much, all her experiences from the territory upgrade that night were automatically shared with the research team waiting nearby.
The expressions of everyone shifted from anticipation to disappointment.
At the same time, Zeta also received a congratulatory message from Shimo, a member of the Kain Federation, celebrating her territory upgrade.
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