Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 455 - 236 Hostility

Chapter 455: Chapter 236 Hostility

Lin Wu listened to the goddess of misfortune, Maya, as she continuously reported bad news, unable to contain his impatience, interrupting his treatment to reach the heartland. Under his meticulous search, he found two AK rifles and 50 rounds of 7.62mm bullets hidden behind a secret door, a discovery to which Maya could only silently acquiesce, accepting Lin Wu’s childish bragging.

"Guns, one gun, two guns. Bullets, one bullet, two bullets... Good luck is fleeting, intelligence is for a lifetime, but handsomeness is eternal." Lin Wu raised his right palm, and Wai jumped up to complete a high-five with Lin Wu’s right forelimb.

That’s right, finding the secret door and the weapons was all Wai’s credit. Yet Wai dared not express the slightest dissatisfaction with Lin Wu taking the credit.

To prevent the situation from escalating further, Maya carried Nightmare to the heart of the shelter to install a locator. This was Maya’s case of suspecting the noble of ignoble intentions. It was not possible for Lin Wu to drag Nightmare to the heartland, after all, that would be too tiring. Of course, there was no excluding the possibility of letting Wai do the dragging.

Shortly after the three of them and the dog left the parking lot, a missile destroyed the shelter. At the same time, the three members of the Meteorological Station received a system notification: The Meteorological Station Base had been listed as an enemy force by the Alliance. The system explained that after being listed as an enemy force by the Alliance, Alliance NPCs would attack the members of the Meteorological Station Base and their base unpredictably and without a fixed schedule. Unlike the zombie sieges, there would be no prior warning from the system, and it would be impossible to know the scale and methods of the enemy attack. The only way to remove the hostile status was over time.

Everyone was indifferent to Nightmare’s life or death. Not even Nightmare herself cherished her own life, but Nightmare, whose treatment had been interrupted, still managed to drag herself back to the Shadow Base and got a high-end hospital room. Poor Emerald Feather did not sleep all night to fix her two legs, working in the medical room all night.

The third target, the green villa.

The next morning at eight, the three of them plus the dog set off. By one in the afternoon, the two and a half humans and one dog returned to base, and Nightmare, whose left hand had been broken again, was sent back to the medical room. The fight yielded two more rifles, three handguns, and a number of bullets. Simultaneously, the base successfully crafted the first pair of fish-skin shoes.

While Nightmare and the others were fighting, the base had begun fishing early in the morning. Why had they thought to use fish skin for the soles of shoes? It was thanks to Lin Wu. He believed they wouldn’t catch any other animal with skin except fish. Also, Lin Wu asked a question: can fish skin even be considered animal skin? That question led everyone astray.

Fish-skin boots, light in weight but extremely low in durability, came with an added BUFF: Agility plus one star.

The artisan, Shana, happily ran 20 meters in the boots made of fabric and fish skin before they were declared worn out. Lin Wu drew the ire towards himself, with everyone looking towards the base’s only Hunter. Lin Wu just laughed it off and walked away.

Seeing Maya’s team yielding fruitful results, Shana also took people shopping at the mall. Lin Wu had wanted to play dead and rest, but the NPC merchant paid the stalls a visit, leading to yet another round of fighting and killing. Emerald Feather made painkillers, exchanging all the resources from the merchant’s hands. This time the merchant did not sell Skill Books but instead sold dog food.

Out of curiosity and with a hopeful heart, Lin Wu used two currency units to buy ten pounds of dog food, only to discover it was useless. Wai, who had eaten the dog food, did not become more handsome nor grow taller, so out of sheer annoyance, Lin Wu dealt with the merchant as he left. Unfortunately, Dawn was not deceptive, and Lin Wu didn’t find anything on the merchant’s body.

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For every Alliance Shelter they destroyed, the base would gain 100 honor points. The condition was that Maya, from the Sawmill Base, had to be the team leader and could not stray too far from the team. Currently, the Shadow Base had 450 honor points. Meanwhile, Nightmare also made a tidy profit.

It was eight o’clock in the evening when Nightmare’s left hand had healed, and she walked out of the hospital room. Rather than dwelling on Lin Wu’s unfriendly behavior in recent fights, she pondered how to persuade Lin Wu and Maya to quickly join the next battle.

As a member of the base, Dashuang knew that the base was deceiving Nightmare, and she felt very conflicted. On one hand was Nightmare, who had helped her; on the other hand were the core interests of the base. If Nightmare learned that the Shadow Base was in urgent need of honor points, it would inevitably lead to Nightmare dominating negotiations and seeking to gain more benefits from the Shadow Base.

Stone was of course aware of the relationship between Dashuang and Nightmare, and he wasn’t particularly concerned. If Dashuang betrayed the base without hesitation, he would expel her. The core issue was hesitation; as long as you hesitated, you had something of value. Shana, at Stone’s request, went to the watchpost to chat with Dashuang. Dashuang was no match for Shana, who was well-versed in psychology, and quickly confided her inner turmoil to Shana.

Shana told Dashuang, "If you don’t tell Nightmare, she might die. If you do tell Nightmare, during the next mission, our base members might die. Considering Nightmare’s identity, I think if someone must die, she’s quite appropriate."

This seemed logical to Dashuang. If she told Nightmare about the situation, Nightmare would likely blackmail the Shadow for more direct help, which would naturally put the Shadow members in greater danger.

Below the watchpost, Nightmare and Maya conversed. Nightmare informed Maya that, according to the information she had, Fortress agents should also have exclusive missions in the upcoming player base swap event at the end of spring. As the top Fortress agent, she believed she would likely become a target for everyone, hence her desire to accelerate their actions to earn more points.

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