Tower Defense: Public Enemy

Chapter 39 The Only Player in the Entire Server

"System update? I can't log off, what should I do?"

Lei Chi suddenly panicked.

Judging from the server-wide announcement, the next step is a server shutdown for maintenance. Logically, even if players don't log off, they should be forcibly logged off during the maintenance.

If you happen to be fighting a boss or farming for bosses, you'll probably feel frustrated.

But Lei Chi's game console is broken and he can't log off. He has no idea what will happen then.

"They can't possibly erase me, can they? Oh well, just wait and see. Everything will be clear in five minutes."

Lei Chi naturally wouldn't initiate the 10th wave of monster invasion at this time. After waiting for five minutes, when the new system update announcement was released, Lei Chi didn't feel anything.

After a brief examination, he discovered that both the lunchbox machine and the beverage machine were functioning properly. However, when he entered the gold mine, he found the orc laborers completely motionless, holding their pickaxes like statues.

Lei Chi arrived at the War Corridor again and found that his Beast Tower had also been frozen in place.

"The turrets have stopped attacking, and the whole world has stopped? Am I the only player left on the server right now?"

Lei Chi went to the slime camp again and saw that the Slime King, who was imprisoned there, was still frozen in the motion of activating a small fireball.

"If that's the case..."

Lei Chi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran to the War Hall.

You can issue invasion wars in the War Hall, but Raid has never been launched yet.

To launch an invasion, one needs to know the opponent's player ID first.

There are many players in the Tata World. Players are real-name authenticated, and there are actually many people with the same name, but each player's ID number is different. So that ID number is the player's identity certificate.

Lei Chi brought up the system panel and looked through the intrusion records. In the system's log files, he could see the IDs of the players who launched the intrusion into his camp.

This is mainly to make it easier for players to take revenge, so that they won't be unable to retaliate when their own camp is attacked but they don't know the invader's number.

In fact, Lei Chi had already unlocked the friend system, which also contained an enemy list. All players who had launched invasion wars against his camp were on the list and displayed in red. You could also see the enemy players' numbers there.

"Right now, I'm very likely the only player on the entire server, with all the other players offline. I wonder if I can launch an invasion. If I can, all the enemy's defensive towers are stationary, leaving me free to come and go as I please! A perfect opportunity to raid their base!"

Lei Chi felt a surge of excitement and didn't waste any more time. He immediately selected Chen Yufei's player ID and checked it in the Invasion War window, only to be shocked by what he found.

"Wow, Chen Yufei's camp defense index is a whopping 5500! He's broken through the thirtieth wave of monster invasion!"

Lei Chi thought to himself, "Impressive. No wonder he's the leader of a gang."

He tried to launch an invasion of Chen Yufei's secret camp, and to his surprise, it succeeded. A system notification came, asking him to hand over a gold coin.

"It really works! It's a bug, but I like it, hahaha!"

Lei Chi was overjoyed and immediately paid the money. A teleportation portal was instantly generated in front of him.

"Go for it!"

Lei Chi shouted and rushed in, without any hesitation.

The next moment, Lei Chi arrived at the War Corridor of Chen Yufei's camp.

To be precise, Chen Yufei created the Flying Fire Camp, and his secret camp is already the Flying Fire Camp camp.

"They've really made it through, these defensive towers..."

Lei Chi was excited. He looked ahead and saw that the War Corridor here was much wider than his own, about fifteen meters wide. On both sides of it stood elemental defense towers of varying heights.

There are Tier 2 [Clay Golem], Tier 2 [Fire Element Tower], Tier 2 [Dark Element Tower], Tier 2 [Lightning Element Tower], as well as Tier 3 [Fire Element Sprite], Tier 3 [Dark Element Tower], and so on.

At a glance, Lei Chi saw no fewer than fifteen Tier 3 defensive towers. He could see brief information about those towers, including their names, attack power for most, and range for some.

But these defensive towers are now just for show, standing still and motionless.

"Heaven has presented me with a golden opportunity; if I don't seize it now, when will I ever get another chance?"

Lei Chi took off running. The War Corridor beneath his feet wasn't long, only three hundred meters. After running through it, he arrived at a camp square that was about the size of a football field.

Behind the camp square is the guild hall, and to the left and right are the gold mine, war hall, challenge hall, gem hall, dungeon hall, and so on.

There appear to be other buildings behind the camp square.

Zhou Nan didn't have time to look closely before he received a system notification that he only had ten minutes to scan the area. At that moment, his attention was drawn to the war dragon boat parked in the center of the camp square.

Like the Beast brand bicycle, this war dragon boat is a kind of "war vehicle" and has no binding mechanism.

Lei Chi quickly ran up to it and immediately saw the attribute information of the war dragon boat.

【War Dragon Boat: A special war chariot with 1,000 durability, 20 paddling positions, and allows up to 20 players to ride together.】

When multiple players ride in the War Dragon Boat, their health points are stacked with the War Dragon Boat and treated as a single unit. Their armor and magic resistance are both zero, and they share the damage when attacked. When the durability reaches zero, the War Dragon Boat is destroyed, and all players die simultaneously.

Note 1: After leaving combat, you can use gold coins to repair the War Dragon Boat. One gold coin can repair 100 points of durability.

Explanation 2: The war dragon boat floats in the air and is immune to most slowing effects. Its forward speed is related to the number of players paddling. One person paddling results in a speed of one meter per second, while twenty people paddling can reach the maximum speed of twenty meters per second.

"Damn it, can I just steal this dragon boat? I'm not greedy, really, I just want to take this dragon boat!"

As they were talking, Lei Chi climbed onto the warship.

Like the Beast brand bicycle, this thing cannot be stored in the storage backpack. If Zhou Nan wants to steal it, he probably can't wait for the system to force him to leave; he'll have to drive it out of the [space-time wormhole] himself.

Ten minutes is neither short nor long. Lei Chi couldn't care less about anything else. He gripped the oars with both hands, and, shouting "Hey hey hey," he rowed the war dragon boat toward the [space-time wormhole].

Its speed quickly reaches its limit, which is one meter per second.

It took Lei Chi about nine minutes to successfully row the war dragon boat out of the [space-time wormhole] and into his own war hall.

With this, the invasion war ended, and Chen Yufei's rice and camp entered a protected period.

"Comfortable, exciting!"

Lei Chi quickly jumped off the war dragon boat and rushed back to the war hall.

The system update only lasts for an hour, so he has to hurry up and launch a few more intrusions.

"Let's infiltrate Mu Xiaoxiao's secret camp this time!"

Lei Chi quickly arrived at Mu Xiaoxiao's [War Corridor] after a series of actions.

Mu Xiaoxiao is a Magic Tower player. Her War Corridor is lined with a large number of Fire Rain Towers, Wind Blade Towers, Lightning Towers, Hail Towers, Falling Rock Towers, Ground Spike Towers, and so on. It seems that only two of them are Tier 3, and the total number is much less than that of Chen Yufei's.

Lei Chi didn't have time to look closely. He ran straight to the camp square and, not seeing anything unusual, headed straight for the gold mine.