“Lim! Gather all Slimes and wrap around the wooden house immediately! Cover yourselves with Corrosive Liquid!”
“Vera! Have the little dolls circle the wooden house! Just slash the air in front of you!”
“Lin Phantom Box, come with me! All these Healing Potions are for you. If any Slime or doll is injured, absorb them in for treatment right away!”
A series of orders was given.
The three monster girls moved instantly, their efficiency terrifying.
Lim led a group of small Slimes, sticking to the outer wall of the wooden house and fusing together.
At the same time, they secreted Corrosive Liquid to envelop the house.
Vera waved her hand, and over a hundred little dolls formed a circular formation around the wooden house, swinging fire axes madly at the air.
Lin Phantom Box swallowed all the Healing Potions made by Vera into her belly, obediently standing by the door, ready to retrieve the wounded at any moment.
After arranging all this, Lin Ran looked at An Mengyue again…
“Cough, cough… Sis, does your head still hurt? Was I too rough yesterday? Can I owe you one more time? I want to buy something like Anti-Invisibility Glasses…”
Lin Ran asked pitifully, pleadingly looking at An Mengyue.
He knew, too, that it was impossible to keep running up debt endlessly.
Being able to owe up to seventy thousand crystal cores was already because An Mengyue had personal feelings.
If you could owe infinitely, then An Mengyue, this Dream Eater, would just become a Wish-Granting Machine—want something, buy it, just charge it.
Any other serious Dream Eater would never allow such reckless credit.
As expected, his guess was right.
An Mengyue’s face instantly turned pale at his words.
Her eyes filled with tears, as if she were about to cry.
“Lord Lin Ran… Have mercy on me…”
She spoke, tugging at Lin Ran’s sleeve.
“Seventy thousand crystal cores… is my limit. Our Dream Eater clan has KPIs too! I lost this month’s Employee of the Month Award because of your gun, and if I rack up more debt, I’ll be optimized out… Uuuu…”
“I’m just a rookie Dream Eater merchant, giving out seventy thousand on credit is already a special exception…”
“At least… at least let’s get through this wave and settle rewards first. If the boss determines you have repayment potential, I can open up more credit… That’s the rule…”
Lin Ran froze.
He’d read her mind before; she wanted him to owe a million.
But now she refused his credit request, which meant she was telling the truth.
Perhaps every time you wanted to charge on credit, you had to wait until the next reward was earned.
Just like in real life, lending money required evaluating someone’s ability to repay.
No loan company would lend to a terminally ill, penniless old man with no relatives.
Still…
Damn, they even have KPI culture now?
Is the Demon King Army’s management system this modern?
Forget it, he couldn’t count on her for now.
Still, his method clearly worked.
Whether the enemy was invisible or just too small, the approach was the same!
If I can’t see you, I’ll just AOE everything!
Lin Ran rushed to Wang Fatty’s wooden house.
Wang Fatty spoke first.
“Brother Lin Ran! What’s going on? What do we do?!”
Wang Fatty was finally stumped.
He truly had no solution to the current predicament.
“Don’t ask. Just know someone’s base-stealing. In every sense!” Lin Ran said succinctly, then continued:
“Fatty, your and Qi Xiaoyu’s houses are in danger too. Get ready to defend!”
Lin Ran pulled out the Favorability Handgun and poured all the corrosive slime stored in his body into its magazine.
Carefully, he loaded the gun.
He raised it, aiming at the sky above the three wooden houses.
“My wish is…”
Lin Ran took a deep breath and almost shouted the wish.
“Let it rain Corrosive Liquid!”
“Bang!”
The gunshot echoed.
A green bullet shot skyward and exploded in midair!
A massive green Corrosive Liquid firework blossomed, then turned into countless green lights falling to the ground.
“Whoa! Lin Ran, what move is this? Aren’t you afraid for our houses—wait! Damn! I get it!” Wang Fatty, staring up, pondered for a long moment before understanding.
Lin Ran nodded approvingly.
A promising lad.
The Corrosive Liquid rain fell evenly around the three wooden houses.
In an instant, the entire base was covered in a thin carpet of Corrosive Liquid.
Invisible or tiny, if you dare cross this Corrosive Liquid, go ahead!
The effect was immediate.
The strange disappearance of planks stopped.
Lin Ran exhaled, feeling he’d guessed right.
He mentally tagged these unknown enemies as [Invisible Units] or [Miniature Units].
Wang Fatty took the chance to sweep up the remaining giant enemies.
After all, Lin Ran’s attacks had attracted so many giants that Wang Fatty’s side had less pressure.
However, before he could finish exhaling, a series of system broadcasts rang out:
[Warning! Team battle field #18039# has been completely wiped out.]
[Warning! Team battle field #18077# has been completely wiped out.]
[Warning! Team battle field #18062# has been completely wiped out.]
…
A string of team wipe alerts echoed in everyone’s ears.
Most teams wouldn’t be wiped out by giants.
But facing these unseen foes, most people had no way to fight back.
Not everyone was like Lin Ran, with functional plug-ins like Slimes, able to devise such simple, brute-force counters.
Against these invisible enemies, the vast majority were helpless, forced to watch as their wooden houses were dismantled piece by piece, then erased by the system.
Wang Fatty and Qi Xiaoyu’s faces were grim.
Even Liu Yan stepped out, silent and serious, just watching the three, hoping they could find a solution.
Although their side was safe for now, the feeling of imminent doom weighed on everyone’s hearts.
“Ran-ge, how long can your trick hold?”
Wang Fatty couldn’t help asking.
“Never calculated. Once the Corrosive Liquid evaporates, it stops working. And it’ll evaporate faster than I can replenish.”
Lin Ran shook his head, looking down.
The Corrosive Liquid was sturdy, but…
At most… it would last another hour.
And it would take him at least a day to refill.
Even borrowing from Lim and the others wouldn’t help; the replenishment rate simply couldn’t keep up with consumption.
Time ticked by.
The smell of Corrosive Liquid in the air grew fainter.
Suddenly, a faint “zzz” sound came from Qi Xiaoyu’s wooden house.
Everyone’s hearts sank.
They saw a plank on the roof of Qi Xiaoyu’s house vanish into thin air!
As expected, the Corrosive Liquid’s effect had ended!
Next, another plank disappeared from Wang Fatty’s house.
The Corrosive Liquid was fading rapidly, and the invisible thieves resumed their base-stealing spree.
Except for Lin Ran’s wooden house, covered by the Slime main body, the other two houses were in peril!
What now?
Could they only watch their teammates’ houses be dismantled and erased by the system?
Just as Lin Ran was at a loss, even considering summoning his own Slimes to help—
“Yo, boss, been looking for you. Are these guys your friends?”
A familiar rough voice sounded behind him.
Lin Ran turned and saw a scarred face.