Chapter Nine Not Until I Make My Move

  Among these fourteen pieces of equipment, seven sets are available, and some of them can even be obtained by hand, so that someone in the three families can get a complete set. How can such temptation not move people's hearts?

  "As for crossbow arrows, we still have one hundred and sixty left." Chen Rui Lei reported the number with some concern, then furrowed his brow.

  The last time Zhang Feng traded, all the mosquito needles were traded out. This day's harvest of 160 more mosquito needles was also a result of the Chen family's hunting trip.

  Unfortunately, these mosquito needles can only exchange for one piece of equipment.

  "We have 130 flame-imbued crossbow bolts in the Li family, how much equipment can we exchange for these?" Li Dahai thought for a moment before reporting a number.

  Zhang Feng said: "Look at the attribute to decide."

  Li Da Hai took an arrow from his ring and handed it to Zhang Feng: "It's this kind, take a look."

  This is a purely bronze-made crossbow arrow, about one foot long, with red flame patterns all over the body of the arrow, and it feels warm to the touch.

  Fireball Arrow

  Material: Bronze.

  Type: Crossbow arrow.

  Sharp value: four.

  Attribute: Comes with a scorching effect that can reduce the target's flexibility by 3% for 1 minute, up to a maximum of 2 stacks.

  Compared with Mosquito Needle, it has one less attribute, but the duration is a bit longer. The maximum 6% reduction in agility is also a good attribute.

  Mitsuki and Mosquito have a rival relationship, unfortunately, there are only 130 of them.

  Li Dahai seemed to know that these were fundamentally worthless and hastily opened his mouth, saying: "Little brother, if you're really selling, we're willing to exchange for Earth coins. What do you think?"

  Zhang Long also said: "If it's just crossbow arrows, Zhang's family really doesn't have them, and we're willing to buy them at a high price."

  Chen Rui also hastily replied: "Little brother, the Chen family is too. We really can't take out more crossbow arrows, we are willing to buy with Earth coins."

  What's money?

  Can't withstand the insect tide, it's just a pile of useless things.

  So all three of them think that at this time, equipment is more important than money.

  Zhang Feng had some hesitation.

  He naturally also knew that money was useless at this time. One hundred and thirty crossbow arrows plus the ones on himself, there were only about six hundred in total.

  If the insect tide really comes, will 600 be enough?

  The leaders of the three families saw Zhang Feng hesitating and suddenly became anxious as well.

  They also know that using money to buy is a bit excessive. At this time, who doesn't know that money is useless?

  Zhang Long was the first to get angry, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth: "Young brother, if not like this, our Zhang family will issue a task scroll. This scroll can only be used in a second-level battlefield, what do you think?"

  "What kind of task scroll?" Zhang Feng hesitated and asked: "What kind?"

  "This is the task we found based on the materials left by our ancestors. However, the next task scroll is for a secondary battlefield, and the reward is not clear how much it will be. But since our ancestors left it behind, it shouldn't be too bad. Little brother, what do you think? This scroll can exchange for two pieces of equipment, this is the most sincere thing we can offer."

  "This one?" Zhang Feng rubbed his chin and nodded: "Not bad, deal."

  Money is indeed useless. But the rewards from the task scrolls are a different story. One has to plan for the long term, after all, if they want to survive the insect tide, they will have to go to the second-level battlefield.

  So this scroll will come in handy at that time. In the first battlefield for over a dozen days, he had barely encountered a task. It can be guessed how difficult it is to encounter tasks on the battlefield, so Zhang Feng took it.

  Zhang Long was overjoyed as soon as Zhang Feng agreed, and immediately took out the scroll and traded with Zhang Feng.

  Zhang Feng took over the scroll and used reconnaissance to discover that the scroll could only be opened when it reached the second-level battlefield, so he shook his head and threw it into the ring.

  "We Li family really can't afford it." Li Dahai frowned and smiled bitterly: "One piece of equipment costs 3,000 Earth coins, we are willing to pay twice the price for one piece."

  "Zhang's family is also." Chen Rui Lei shrugged and replied.

  "Brother, we're all on the same side after all. Let's just leave it at that. If we could have taken it out, we would have exchanged it long ago."

  Zhang Feng felt that there was no other way and could only make this deal.

  The Li family and the Chen family each bought one, spending 3,000 Earth coins each.

  Then bought one set of 166 mosquito needles and one set of 133, also purchased several ordinary equipment and weapons, the remaining equipment can only shake head and sigh at the remaining equipment.

  They really can't afford it anymore.

  Zhang's family spent a scroll to exchange for two items and still had some money left, so they bought the remaining set of equipment and the actual equipment.

  At this point, Zhang Feng already had 19,000 Earth coins on him.

  It can be said that nearly a third of the wealth on this first-class battlefield is concentrated on Zhang Feng's body.

  Luo You saw that the transaction was complete and reminded everyone on the side: "Now, there's nothing else to worry about. Everyone should return to their positions and wait for nightfall."

  Dark Night——

  These two words made everyone's heart sink.

  The sun has already sunk halfway below the horizon, and night is really coming.

  "Ugh!"

  The air in the camp was filled with the sound of sirens wailing, causing everyone's heart to sink suddenly.

  A communications soldier stumbled over, pale-faced, and exclaimed: "Report! The electronic eyes on the perimeter just detected a large number of bugs pouring out of the building. They're... they're..."

  The rest is unnecessary to say.

  Everyone rushed towards their own camp immediately.

  What entered the eye was a large number of tens of centimeters long shell insects densely gathered at the fence outside the camp. These insects, which bite everything, turn the forest grass into a desolate scene wherever they crawl.

  Several mice were crawled over by the shell, making a few shrill cries, and even their bones were left behind.

  Zhang Feng's face looked unpleasant, and Chen Yu and Li Qian's faces didn't look good either.

  "This——" Chen San was even more horrified and trembled with fear: "This is too terrifying."

  Although our ancestors said that worm tides are terrifying, they also thought that even if the worm tides were more terrifying, they should still be able to be taken care of under modern weapons.

  Now staring at tens of thousands of beetles, even the bravest person would have goosebumps and a pale face.

  Can this small camp, with its high-voltage electrified fence, keep out these terrifying guys?

  These locusts are like something that will destroy everything, where they pass through the grasslands become deserts and the rocks are also gnawed into debris.

  Everyone's hands were trembling, and everyone's mood became abnormally oppressive.

  As the beetle moved, everyone tensely started sweating coldly behind their backs.

  But they also knew that there was no way out now and that they could only survive by enduring the insect tide.

  When the beetles approached the high-voltage electricity, the electric arc on the high-voltage electricity was attracted by these small lives and suddenly ejected a large amount of electric light.

  Bang, bang, bang......

  A single beetle was struck by an electric arc and instantly burst into a small puddle of greenish blood.

  All the beetles surged forward one after another, like an electric arc that didn't know what was ahead, constantly crashing into the fence.

  However, no tortoise was able to cross the fence, and a pool of dark green blood flowed continuously in all directions.

  This turn of events put everyone's mind at ease.

  Chen San wiped the cold sweat and laughed: "Scared me to death. If these beetles come over, I'm afraid that everyone in this camp will not be able to hold on for even an hour before dying here."

  "Brother Chen, I think we don't even need to lift a finger, this bug tide will pass by easily." A soldier in the front burst out laughing, his tone sounding particularly relaxed.

  Another one laughed: "Yes, what are these little bugs? The changed earth is not short of electricity at all. Even if these bugs come in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, they can't consume all the electricity. It seems that we were too nervous this time. The times are different, it's not the world recorded by our ancestors at all. Can modern technology still not deal with these little bugs?"

  A group of warriors began to gather together, laughing and chatting, pointing at these insects.

  Zhang Feng found out that most people have started to let their guard down now.

  The only unchanged soldier still holds his weapon and looks forward solemnly.

  Zhang Feng's gaze swept over these beetles, and his hands holding the knife trembled slightly.

  Just saw these beetles and was really startled. He was so shocked that his hands were tightly gripping the double knives, not daring to relax in the slightest.

  He kept thinking, if these insects really crossed the fence, he would die miserably!

  Either nothing is left, including bones, or only the skeleton remains, a white bony frame placed here for a lifetime, until it weathers and turns to ashes.

  Either way, it made Zhang Feng extremely tense.

  Now seeing the fence blocking this enemy like a swarm of locusts, his heart also relaxed.

  The sound of continuous faint explosions beside his ear, Zhang Feng's tense heart also began to slow down.

  At this moment, the ground where everyone was standing began to tremble slightly.

  "Earthquake?" Zhang Feng subconsciously looked down at the ground, his pupils suddenly shrinking.

  His effective radius of vision was only five meters. Adding his height of nearly 1.8 meters, all the parts that entered the ground were just over three meters. It was like this, he saw a pair of huge pincers actually underground, making an effort to push upwards.

  "Underground! Everyone be careful." Zhang Feng shouted loudly, his long knife stabbing down at a beetle that was about to rush out of the ground.

  Green sprang up from the ground with a long knife thrust.

  "Hiss, hiss......"

  Underfoot, one after another, beetles jumped out from underground.

  Zhang Feng's reminder was extremely timely, and the warriors and soldiers came just in time to react, all of them being on high alert.

  These beetles jumped out and were immediately knocked down by bullets and swords.

  "Brother Chen, you don't need to take action, we can handle these guys." The warriors and soldiers surrounded the hundreds of beetles that had jumped out and then started a massacre.

  "Chen brothers, this kind of thing doesn't require us to take action. Don't forget our mission." Chen San pulled Zhang Feng back and smiled: "First-class insect, nothing special. Let's wait for the elite class to arrive, then we'll take action."

  The worms jumped out in batches and were easily picked up.

  Finally, in the next batch of beetles, two secondary beetles jumped out.

  However, before these two armoured insects could attack, they were swept away by the heavy machine guns on the watchtower and turned into a pile of minced meat.

  All kinds of steel-grade and ordinary bronze-grade equipment fell to the ground, and warriors and soldiers began to collect equipment and pick up good ones.

  "Brother Chen, I think we don't even need you guys to make a move, we can just take everything."

  "Yes, that's all the elite beetles are capable of. They're going to die anyway. Can't we finish off these guys?"

  "Another batch is out, everyone has cleaned up, and with good equipment, we can be masters like Brother Chen."

  A group of warriors laughed and attacked the jumping beetles with an extremely relaxed expression.

  "If it's like this, then it's really easy." Zhang Feng put away his twin blades and smiled from behind.

  This time, five second-level monsters appeared among the jumping beetles.

  Chen San didn't care anymore, swung his axe and rushed forward, laughing loudly: "I'm here too, damn it, I also want to grab equipment!"

  Five level 2 shell insects were surrounded and killed by dozens of warriors in less than a minute, bursting out a piece of thick green light equipment, which was picked up by the person who killed the monster, and excitedly put on immediately.

  At this moment, countless envious eyes were fixed on him, only sighing that he was lucky.

  Several waves in a row, and there aren't many second-level monsters, allowing quite a few people to obtain some good equipment.

  Li Qian's heart was also moved, wanting to take action, and she glanced sideways at Zhang Feng.

  Zhang Feng stretched and sat down under a small tree, closing his eyes to rest.

  Li Qian asked in puzzlement: "Aren't you moved?"

  Zhang Feng opened his eyes and smiled: "Exciting! But I think it's not time to make a move yet."

  Li Qian's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

  She listened and thought Zhang Feng was being arrogant.

  However, Chen Yu understood and turned around in surprise to look at Zhang Feng. She heard that Zhang Feng was not arrogant, but disdainful.

  Zhang Feng looked down on those dropped equipment.

  In Zhang Feng's eyes, these thick green light equipment were far inferior to his own.

  There was no need for him to take action at all.

  However, Chen Yu noticed that Chen San had picked up a crossbow, and after reporting its attributes, many people couldn't help but admire it.

  But Zhang Feng still smiled with an expressionless face.

  Could it be that he still has an even better crossbow in his hands?

  Chen Yuxin thought to herself secretly. PS: 3700 characters, that's all for today.