I built a safe house in the eerie night.

Jiang Ning only felt a flash of purple light before his eyes, and the leather bag in his hand turned into black smoke and disappeared.

The interface information pops up simultaneously:

[Successfully opened the "Low-Grade Material Lucky Bag"]

[Received: 1000 catties of Black Tai Sui, 300 Yin Wood]

"good!"

Upon seeing this, Jiang Ning let out a low cry of wild joy.

A whole thousand catties of black oyster shell, which is equivalent to the village's total monthly collection in the past, not to mention the three hundred pieces of yin wood.

Hunting the bizarre is indeed the fastest way to acquire resources.

"Looks like my luck is pretty good. Purple light, is that a symbol of good fortune?"

Jiang Ning guessed, and his anticipation grew even stronger. Without hesitation, he opened the second lucky bag.

This time, only a blue light flashed before my eyes, and the lucky bag turned into black smoke.

[Received: 500 catties of Black Tai Sui, 100 Black Stones]

"It's a bit worse than before, the blue light is off."

Jiang Ning was slightly disappointed, but he also understood that it was impossible for every time to be a top-notch product.

If purple light can produce a thousand-pound black Tai Sui (a type of rare fungus), could there be even higher levels, such as golden light? Or even higher, such as multicolored light?

What amazing resources could be unearthed from that?

From this perspective, the original manual labor efficiency is incredibly weak.

With such a sudden increase in available resources, Jiang Ning immediately looked at the interface prompt.

[Should we store the current resources in the territory warehouse?]

"yes!"

As soon as the choice was made, several black smoke columns seemed to condense out of thin air in the sky, winding their way down and flowing straight into the simple warehouse behind the village.

A full 1,500 catties of black Tai Sui, 100 pieces of Yin Wood, and 50 pieces of black stone were instantly materialized!

The warehouse space was already small, and it was instantly filled to the brim.

Large, pure, and concentrated clumps of black succulents, resembling solid blocks of black jelly, overflowed from inside the door and piled up at the entrance.

Five enormous, solid logs, each requiring several people to encircle, were entirely black and exuded a chilling aura, lying horizontally on the ground. Several equally massive black stones, their surfaces bearing natural dark patterns, also materialized.

This scene was far beyond the comprehension of the children left behind in the village.

Their eyes widened, their mouths agape, staring blankly at the resource mountain that had appeared out of nowhere.

Jiang Ning, who was already a towering figure in their hearts, now seemed to have become a myth, as if he were omnipotent.

Jiang Ning looked at the spectacular scene of resources falling from the sky, and while he was delighted, he also frowned slightly:

"It's convenient to directly manifest it like this, but if there are too many, they take up a lot of space and can't be carried around. In the future, I'll have to find a way to get storage bags, storage rings, or other spatial treasures. With those things, resources and their use can be more flexible."

Just as I was pondering this, a clear and earnest voice rang out.

"Reporting to Chief Jiang, the 'Justice Squad' has completed the sanitation task you assigned for today. The village is spotless. Please give instructions for the next step!"

Xiong Qiuqiu led a group of teenagers, puffing out their little chests and standing seriously in front of Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning paused for a moment, then chuckled. The Justice Squad? That's an interesting name.

But what the hell is Chief Jiang?

He looked around and saw that the village was indeed much cleaner than in the morning, which pleased him.

However, thinking about the fierce battle that would follow that night, I felt a little sorry for the children. But I decided to give them something to do since they were just idling around anyway.

"Please give instructions, Chief Jiang!" the children said in unison again, their attitude very serious.

Jiang Ning, suddenly seized by a playful impulse, pointed to the massive, dark tree beside them that required several people to encircle, and chuckled, "Then, why don't you go and move that big tree to the village entrance?"

The children were about to be overjoyed when they heard this, but then they were instantly dumbfounded.

They looked at the giant tree, dozens of times their own size, and then at Jiang Ning, who was smiling. A look of utter bewilderment crossed their faces, as if they were wondering, "Us?"

Even Xiong Qiuqiu blinked, her little face a bit blank, seemingly not expecting Jiang Ning to issue such a cruel task.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Xiong Qiuqiu immediately stood up straight and shouted, "Yes, Leader! The Justice Squad will do its best to complete the mission!"

After saying that, she led the way and ran towards the giant tree, and the other children followed suit.

What happened next made Jiang Ning chuckle. A group of children surrounded the giant tree, some pushing, some pulling, and some trying to hug it, their little faces turning red as they exerted all their strength.

Unfortunately, the giant tree remained completely still.

Xiong Qiuqiu was completely sprawled on the tree, using both her hands and feet, like a kitten struggling to climb, her little face flushed with exhaustion.

After a while, Xiong Qiuqiu finally ran back, panting, her face flushed, looking both embarrassed and unwilling.

"Report... Chief, we... we can't move it, we request assistance!"

Jiang Ning smiled and waved his hand:

"Alright, go have some fun, or you can just cheer me on from the sidelines. I'm going to start building fortifications now."

The children looked at each other, and then actually obeyed the order.

One by one, they climbed onto the shady tree and sat down in a row, looking at Jiang Ning with earnest anticipation, becoming the audience of the atmosphere group.

Jiang Ning suppressed his smile and turned his attention back to the important matter at hand.

Bring up the [Heavenly Craftsman] interface and begin carefully planning the allocation of existing resources.

"Building a wooden wall around the village is not feasible right now. It would require too many resources, which we cannot afford. Moreover, a wooden wall is purely defensive and not proactive enough."

Jiang Ning paced back and forth at the village entrance, analyzing the situation.

"The best defense is offense. Resources are limited, so we must maximize our attack power and hunt down more monsters to snowball our advantage. There are only three nights left at the altar; we have to fight with everything we have!"

With his gaze falling on the two bone arrow towers built last night, Jiang Ning made a decision.

"Last night, the arrow towers' attack frequency and coverage weren't enough; some always slipped through the net. So build more! Build more!"

He clicked on the building blueprint "Bone Arrow Tower" and directly selected the construction quantity "3"!

With abundant resources, we should embrace offense and use firepower to cover the entire area!

The interface responded by first outlining the skeleton of the first bone arrow tower in front of Jiang Ning. Even though the grotesque skull launcher was just a phantom, it exuded a chilling aura of killing intent.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third phantom images appeared in turn.

Then resource allocation began, and some of the black Tai Sui piled up at the warehouse entrance turned into black smoke and rose into the air.

The huge dark wood on which the children were sitting, and half of another dark wood next to it, also turned into black smoke and rose up.

The black smoke gathered in the air, like rivers flowing into the sea, and surged towards the three skeletal phantoms.

The children sitting on the dark wood were startled and quickly jumped down. They then stared wide-eyed at the magical scene.

Black smoke rapidly condensed and shaped, bones intertwined and grew, and ghostly flames seemed to flicker in the empty eye sockets of the skull.

A moment later, three bone arrow towers, identical to those of the previous night, stood on the open ground.

"Wow--!"

The children exclaimed in unison, their mouths agape once more.

The miraculous construction process completely blew them away.

Jiang Ning, standing with his back to them in front of the tower, his clothes and hair fluttering in the breeze, appeared incredibly tall, even sacred and majestic, in their eyes.

A sense of admiration, like a spark, burned fiercely in their young hearts.

Jiang Ning smiled slightly, feeling the burning gazes of the children behind him.

He didn't turn around, but continued operating the interface, controlling the three new arrow towers to move to their designated positions.

Finally, in the relatively spacious area on the left side of the village entrance where the houses were sparser, two new arrow towers were placed, which, together with the one from the previous night, formed a three-tower defensive formation.

Two more were placed on the right side.

Thus, five bone arrow towers, white as bones and exuding a sinister aura, silently guarded the barren land of Baiye Village, coldly watching the mountains and forests ahead, ready to tear any invading enemies to shreds at any moment.

Looking at the five imposing arrow towers, Jiang Ning finally felt a sense of security.

Fear often stems from insufficient firepower, and this saying is incredibly apt here.

The five arrow towers fired in turn, creating a dense network of crossfire.

However, the problem remains: the arrow towers themselves have weak defenses and are easily destroyed by nearby, unpredictable attacks.

Last night, we used a simple wooden wall to enclose the area, which was effective but crude.

"Resources are being consumed too quickly. Building just three towers used up 600 catties of black Tai Sui and 150 yin wood. We have to be careful with the rest."

As Jiang Ning pondered, he also remembered the architectural blueprints he had just received that day.

He immediately clicked on the [Architectural Blueprint "Bone Fence Barricade"], and detailed information appeared:

[Requires: 50 catties of Black Tai Sui, 1 complete skeleton, and 10 units of Yin Wood or Black Stone.]

"Complete skeleton..." Jiang Ning had a flash of inspiration when he saw this request.

Instead of using wooden walls as "skirts" for arrow towers, why not use these bone barricades that are specifically designed for defense and also have a counteracting effect against strange creatures?

It can protect the base of the arrow tower, and the sharp bone spikes can also kill enemies who try to get close, killing two birds with one stone.

We need to see the actual product first.

He turned to the group of children, still reeling from the shock, and smiled, "Is there any brave warrior willing to help the chief by dragging over a few of those relatively intact, eerie corpses outside the village?"

Upon hearing this, the children all looked at the mountain of gruesome corpses outside the village. Fear immediately appeared on their faces as they looked at each other, some of them shrinking back.

Just then, a clear and courageous voice rang out:

"I...I'll do it!"

Xiong Qiuqiu straightened her little chest and stood up again. Although there was still tension on her face, her eyes were especially firm.