Chapter 551 - 273: Hunting_2
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The severe summer heat lasted until the end of the month, making these twenty-plus days extraordinarily grueling for the players, with work efficiency significantly reduced. Thankfully, due to Lin Wu’s outstanding performance, the Sawmill’s two agricultural fields, and fish from the dam, Shadow maintained a comparatively high living standard.
During this period, Dawn reminded all hardcore players that once winter started, outdoor crops could not be harvested, indoor hydroponically grown crops’ harvest would be halved, and the presence of outdoor beasts would be greatly reduced. Therefore, she hoped that all players would store food early to prepare for the harshest winter.
Dawn only shouted slogans; the problem was how to store? Rice and wheat would also get insects if stored for a long time. Following Starlight’s suggestion, Shadow began making pickles and dried meat, and planned to dig a cellar in the Doomsday Fortress for long-term food storage. However, there wasn’t much daily food left to spare for pickling and drying vegetables and meat.
In the end, it was decided to move into the Doomsday Fortress before winter and set up four hydroponic rooms.
On the other hand, after slacking off for 20 days, the reserve of building materials was about to break through 250.
Besides the good news, there was bad news too. The Threat Value of the Shadow base had reached six stars at 60%, with an estimation to break through seven stars in early next month. After experiencing a four-star siege, the Doomsday Base’s threat level was at a low two-star. Lin Wu had also complained about this.
Little White Rabbit explained the siege system’s calculation method. Each day at eight in the morning, a random draw would take place. If a siege was drawn, then the time was drawn randomly. The probability of a one-star siege happening was one in ten thousand. Two-star, one in a thousand. Three-star, one percent. Four-star, five percent. Five-star, ten percent. Six-star, fifteen percent, leaving players 24 hours of safety time to prepare. Seven-star, twenty percent, 48 hours of safety time. The highest was a ten-star threat with a 35 percent daily occurrence rate.
Why hadn’t the six-star 15% of Shadow triggered in half a month? That was down to luck; theoretically, even a ten-star threat could never trigger.
Little White Rabbit revealed a bit of "fate" here: the higher the difficulty of the siege, the higher the contribution for defending, and correspondingly, more points could be earned. To Stone, this so-called "fate" was just a placebo. Knowing the "fate" or not didn’t change the points anyway.