Farming game: Survival for all [StarCraft]

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After the upgrade, all players loaded the game panel. For large-scale group activities like [Manor Defense], the system notified each player, so everyone was aware of the task assigned by the system at the first time - defeat the enemy in the southeast and defend the manor.

As for the task rewards, the system gives different rewards to ordinary players and manor owners. Ordinary players only have reputation rewards. They can get basic reputation +10 by participating in the battle. If they are brave in the battle and have other contributions, the reputation will be increased as appropriate.

The rewards from the manor owner are gold coins +10000, experience points +1000, and blue crystals +1000.

It can be said that compared with the stingy rewards of ordinary tasks, the rewards for this special task are very rich. Not to mention the gold coins, the experience points alone are enough for Xia Ji to directly upgrade to level 6, not to mention the blue crystals in the thousands, which is a number they have not been able to accumulate in almost a year (main world time) of doing tasks.

Just for this, Xia Ji and the others are going to fight together.

However, out of protection for Xia Ji, Xia Ji could not take part in this battle, because the ones coming this time were not harmless creatures like the minotaurs that Xia Ji could deal with, but a group of ferocious black-skinned goblins with big pointed ears, hooked noses, animal tooth necklaces around their necks, animal skins on their bodies, and bows and arrows or bone knives in their hands. They looked very difficult to deal with.

Before the system reminded that the battle to defend the manor had begun, the drones that were scattered out for detection had already detected the traces of this group of black-skinned goblins. They took screenshots and sent them to the minotaur for identification. The minotaur with slightly stronger horns, Nadru, immediately shouted out the black-skinned goblin, Zorah.

From the little minotaur, I learned that this group of enemies, numbering about seventy or eighty, are the notorious black-skinned goblins in the Forest of Frog. They are good at using bows and arrows and bone knives, and are agile and nimble. In addition to their daily love of looting, they also like adventure, and they have some similarities with the group of green-skinned goblins underground.

Ever since the Tauren could remember, their Tauren tribe had been robbed by these black-skinned goblins and harassed by the green-skinned goblins underground, and they hated them deeply.

Moreover, according to the little Minotaur, these goblins have extremely powerful firework balls in their hands. With a loud bang, the Minotaur will be blown to death.

"And last time, they threw fireworks into the thick fog. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom! They scared the birds in the woods and made them fly away!"

Perhaps they really hated this group of goblins, as they were able to make the minotaur people suppress their fear of the "devil" and talk about the bad things that the black and green goblins had done.

If the minotaurs were not lying (from a professional point of view, it seemed that they were not lying) and their perception was correct, then it was probably this group of goblins that attacked the manor last time.

However, where do these goblins' bombs come from?

Judging from the attire and physical condition of the minotaur, as well as the decorations and weapons of the dark-skinned goblins in the picture, it doesn't look like they have entered a very technological stage. Especially the black-skinned goblin, who looks barbaric, as if he is in a very backward era.

Could it be that this race had mastered the technology of bombs early on? Or is it because this secondary world manor is essentially a reality-oriented game, so the creatures in the manor's unlocked maps have some strange powers?
The players couldn't figure it out for now, but they didn't dare to underestimate them. Even though they were holding backward bone knives and wooden bows, who could guarantee that they didn't have more lethal weapons hidden? Or even so-called magic?

No matter what, they must not underestimate the enemy, and they must not let Xia Ji come out of the castle to fight them. It's okay if they, the players, "die" in the secondary world. The worst that can happen is that they can't log into the manor. But Xia Ji only has three lives. If she dies, no one will be able to enter the manor. Without the manor, the humans on Hope Star who have not yet made a breakthrough in planting and breeding technology will also be finished.

Xia Ji was still conscious. She was not the kind of person who would act in chaos and show off her strength. Three lives sounded like a lot, but this was only the first wave of defense. Who knew if there would be more dangers later? Of course, she had to protect herself and not cause trouble for everyone.

Because she didn't know what kind of protection the castle would provide her if she stayed in it, to be on the safe side, Xia Ji found a place in the middle of the second floor with only small windows on all four sides.

At this moment, Xia Ji understood why ancient foreigners built castles to be airtight. It was really to save their lives. Compared to daily living, the function of castles was more about defense.

After she was done, she went offline and explained the current situation of the manor to the Huameng team.

At this time, it was dark in the main world and it should have been time to sleep, but the thick fog would dissipate after the system upgrade, and everyone was worried. After midnight, the players logged in to the manor to conduct exploration.

At first, it was said that the minotaurs had broken into the apple orchard where the fruits were about to ripen. But because they were small minotaurs and harmless, the team in the main world relaxed a little. They were even in the mood to go online and search for some photos of minotaurs in games and film and television works, and compare them with the videos brought back by Xia Ji, to analyze how the minotaurs in the manor were different from what humans imagined, what weaknesses they might have, and so on.

Then, as the dark-skinned goblins and the minotaur appeared, a race that attacked the thick fog, the relaxed atmosphere among everyone disappeared.

As soon as Xia Ji went offline, Old Nie came up to him and asked about the current situation.

"The system has issued a mission to defend the manor. These black goblins are indeed our enemies. Captain Qin has led the players to fight them. The two sides have not yet faced each other, but according to the minotaur, they are in the same group as the green goblins. We haven't seen the green goblins yet, and we don't know how many of them there are... The goblins, I wonder if the bomb is on them. I'm afraid there will be casualties. We'd better prepare 1000 temporary players to replace them at any time."

Temporary player quotas are not like official player quotas. You must build a house with a corresponding population limit before you can log in to the game. Instead, once the level is reached, the system will directly open the account and allow the account holder to go online.

Because they had not anticipated that there would be temporary player quotas, before level five, the team had only selected 200 players as backup players. Now they had to find 900 players all at once... If you think about it carefully, it was not a difficult task. They were just temporary player quotas, and they were only for the time being to deal with the current defense war. It did not require the trouble of selecting official players like before. They only needed to call up an army and let them fight a battle in the 'newly developed holographic game'.

The army's obedience to orders can be said to be the highest among all national posts, and it is common to go out on missions in the middle of the night. Soon, a group of soldiers with high physical fitness and good skills were assembled, ready to go on the line at any time.

On this side, the first group of soldiers had arrived at the scene and met the black-skinned goblins.

Because when the plantation was destroyed, the manor had not been attacked yet. Although some weapons were transported, their focus in the early stage was on exploring the manor and building infrastructure and resources, and they did not transport enough weapons.

Fortunately, although they didn't have many weapons, they had protective shields on. Therefore, when the two armies met, without waiting for the player to communicate with them, the black-skinned goblin took out a black spherical object from his bag without saying a word, and threw it -

"bump!"

It hit the military protective shield and was bounced back, blowing up the black-skinned goblin.

The characteristics of the military-grade protective shield are that it is easy to retract, resistant to impact, and able to rebound. As long as the opponent's weapons are not as powerful as nuclear weapons, this protective shield can defend against them.

However, this thing consumes a lot of energy, and if you use it frugally, you can only use it 5 times at most.

The players took this out for the first time, not because they valued their lives, but because they valued the unknown enemy, the black-skinned goblins. They were afraid that the weapons they threw at them would be the same as before, which could stimulate the system to activate the emergency protection mechanism. Behind them were apple orchards and farmland. If they were destroyed, all the apples and food would be gone.

Lives can be lost but food cannot, so they quickly activated the protective shield.

But who would have thought that what looked like an ordinary hand grenade was actually a hand grenade. Once it exploded, it directly took away most of the enemy's combat power. Only those who were a little further away were not hit by the explosion.

The dark-skinned goblins obviously didn't expect that this thing would bounce back and explode. When they blew up the thick fog, it didn't bounce back at all. And—

The leader of the black goblins, Zura, who ran very fast, saw clearly that the firework ball was going to hit the tall devil race. However, one of the devils pressed something, and a translucent object suddenly appeared. The firework ball hit the strange object and bounced back, killing his people!
Zura, who had always been lawless and fearless, finally felt a little frightened, and hurriedly called on the remaining surviving black-skinned goblins in the tribe's language to flee quickly.

In fact, there was no need for him to call out. Those black-skinned goblins had never encountered an incident of being blown back, and the ones that appeared were the legendary devil race. If they were not confident in the fireworks, they would not dare to attack the devil race. Now seeing their dead companions, this group of black-skinned goblins who loved adventure finally believed in the power of the legendary devil race, and they had already fled in all directions.

This is different from the battle that players imagined, but no matter what, the other party actually took the initiative and used lethal weapons, so there is no reason to let them go.

They divided into several teams and immediately chased after them.

An hour later, all the dark-skinned goblins that had escaped were caught, stripped of their weapons, and returned captive.

The war ended very quickly. Apart from a few players who were scratched by branches while chasing each other in the woods, and some superficial injuries caused by the resisting black-skinned goblins, there were no casualties.

This is really good news.

Not only Xia Ji, but also the Chinese Alliance breathed a sigh of relief after finding out.

But the story was not over yet. As soon as the black-skinned goblins were captured, the drone footage detected the appearance of the dwarves described by the minotaur not far from the pasture. Minotaur also appeared in the cultivated land near the apple orchard. Unusual movements were also detected underground. A machine modified from a soil detection and analysis robot was dispatched, and it was discovered that it was a group of green-skinned goblins.

Without the protection of thick fog, the manor seemed to have become a sieve in an instant, and anyone could come in.

Xia Ji and the others were in a lot of trouble and immediately sent 1000 temporary players online.

The battle to defend the manor was the real large-scale start.

(End of this chapter)