With An Suisui, the game expert, assisting from the sidelines, the players gradually figured out the game’s patterns.
Every monster and boss had a weakness, usually related to the animal they were based on.
As long as they found the weak point of each wave’s animal prototype, dealing with the monsters became much less difficult.
Most importantly, their equipment kept piling up, and the game didn’t seem as hard as before.
But An Suisui felt more and more uneasy, and Jian Shi wasn’t relaxing either.
Yu Cang even teased them, “We’re already at wave nine—just one more and the game’s over. No need to be so tense.”
Jian Shi didn’t comment, just sat on the ground and used the time to rest.
In the real world, An Suisui was a gaming pro—she’d played thousands of games and had a sharp sense for them.
Her instincts told her the tenth wave wouldn’t be easy.
No game ever gets easier the further you go.
She sat on the ground, reviewing the previous waves.
After the fifth wave’s attack, the sixth wave brought a herd of cattle, with a yak as the mini-boss and a rhino as the main boss—all aggressive, charging animals.
Fighting these required guiding their direction and keeping them away from the base.
The seventh wave had hyenas as the small monsters, a leopard as the mini-boss, and a lion as the main boss—all fierce, highly aggressive animals.
To deal with them, they used strong scents of blood to lure them away from the carrot, making them chase after the bloody bait instead.
The eighth wave was wolves, with a tiger as the mini-boss and an elephant as the main boss.
Even the small monsters in this wave were hard to handle.
Wolves are smart and work as a team, never fighting one-on-one and making full use of their numbers.
Weaker players were constantly in danger.
Luckily, the flamethrowers and the wall in front of the base protected the carrot, giving them enough time to fight back.
But when the elephant appeared, chaos broke out.
A normal elephant is already huge, but the boss elephant was even more massive—dozens of meters tall. The wall nearly collapsed under its attacks, cracks appeared everywhere, and it took a lot of coins to repair afterward.
The ninth wave they’d just finished had wild boars as the small monsters, which were also hard to handle, and most players got injured.
When the giant lizard boss appeared, they almost got wiped out.
An Suisui noticed that each wave was harder than the last. If wild boars were already the toughest of the small monsters, what could possibly come after them?
Her anxiety grew. She circled the defensive wall she’d built, then steeled herself and invested all her remaining coins into the wall’s construction.
She gathered all the players, her expression more serious than ever.
“I don’t think the tenth wave will be easy. Our equipment is already maxed out. I’m calling on everyone to put all your remaining coins into the wall. Any objections?”
Without waiting for a response, An Suisui pulled up her game panel in front of everyone and slid all her coins into the wall’s account.
The players gasped—An Suisui wasn’t leaving herself any backup. What if they needed coins later?
Jian Shi was the first to stand up. He followed An Suisui’s lead and put all his remaining coins into the wall as well.
He turned, his cold gaze sweeping over the players. “You don’t seriously think the tenth wave will be as easy as the last, do you?”
He sneered, “Ever played a game? When is the final boss ever easy?”
Even in the interstellar era, gaming was as popular as ever, with new updates sparking fresh crazes.
Almost everyone had tried immersive games.
An Suisui took a deep breath and explained the pros and cons.
“You all know coins are mainly for upgrading equipment, but our gear is already maxed out. The wall, though, can still be upgraded a lot.”
“Don’t forget, our goal is to protect the carrot. If it gets eaten, even if you’re in top gear and unscathed, you still lose.”
No one knew what happened to players who failed the game, and An Suisui didn’t want to find out.
She was tired of the players’ stubbornness.
Did she really need to explain how important the wall was?
If it hadn’t been for the wall holding off sneak attacks, the carrot would’ve been gone long ago, and they wouldn’t have survived this far.
Duan Qingyang sat on a rock, rubbing his upgraded freeze gun.
As one of the most useful weapons, he’d maxed it out. Besides An Suisui and Jian Shi, he’d grown the fastest and had plenty of coins left.
He closed his eyes, thought for a long time, then stood up and put all his coins into the wall.
With three players making such a decisive move, the rest started to panic.
Would the final wave really be that hard?
They’d made it this far—just a little more and they could go home.
Yu Cang gritted his teeth, stood up, and muttered, “The carrot is the bottom line. This is the right thing to do.”
He, too, put all his coins into the wall.
An Suisui finally relaxed a little.
She quietly reassured the nervous players, “You can always earn more coins. As long as we work together and give it our all, we can withstand the final wave.”
One by one, the rest of the players put their coins into the wall—even if some kept a little back, they all contributed.
An Suisui didn’t force everyone to go all in like her.
She opened the wall’s upgrade system, and with everyone’s coins pooled together, not only were all the cracks repaired, but the wall was upgraded three more times.
The wall went from a shabby mud barrier to a four-meter-thick, six-meter-high fortress of iron and copper.
The best part: after the third upgrade, four icy turrets rose from the four sides of the wall.
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