Tower Defense: Public Enemy

Chapter 98 The Skull Mine Manager

"One person wearing six green hats, a hero of cuckoldry!"

Lei Chi marveled at SpongeBob.

Ordinary people can't wear six berets. For example, players can only wear one and can only enjoy the attribute boost from one beret.

It has to be something like SpongeBob SquarePants with a hidden equipment slot; putting the beret into the equipment slot will add attributes.

Lei Chi estimates that SpongeBob could be equipped with six rubber band slingshots or something similar.

"SpongeBob is an immortal creature. He used to have no attack power, but now he does. He's invincible! Come on, spit out a jellyfish for me to see..."

Lei Chi made SpongeBob activate the [Jellyfish Impact] skill. The carefree SpongeBob pouted his little mouth and quickly spat out one translucent jellyfish after another.

Those jellyfish, like bubbles, fly extremely slowly. They look soft and bouncy, and when they encounter an obstacle, they burst open with a pop.

SpongeBob can also do military boxing, and he even gave Lei Chi a performance, humming and hawing, and it looked pretty convincing.

At this time, Lei Chi still had more than 2,400 gold coins. Unable to resist his curiosity, he spent another 1,000 gold coins to transform a skeleton miner into a hero.

Once a Skeleton Miner is promoted to a Hero, they are no longer a Skeleton Miner, but a "Skeleton Mine Manager," a pure production unit that can only work in gold mines or other resource-producing areas.

Its loyalty remains fixed at 60. It can level up for every 100 gold coins collected. It has the skill of feigning death, gained the attributes of a bronze BOSS, raised its level cap to LV20, and its entire skeleton has become as if it were cast in silver. Its size has grown to nearly two meters.

In addition, the Skeleton Minemaster has an extra skill called "Multi-Holding". This skill allows the Skeleton Pickaxe to store pickaxes in the equipment slot. When a pickaxe is stored, the attack speed is increased by 0.5, and an arm will be added to hold the gold mining pickaxe.

In other words, the Skeleton Minemaster can grow up to six arms and use six pickaxes to mine gold, making the gold mining efficiency six times greater than before.

"Wow, swinging six pickaxes at the same time is really exciting! I'm worried I'll collapse the gold mine! Too bad I don't have that many pickaxes in my mine..."

The gold mine in Leichi is now at LV5, and there are only six pickaxes in total. Five of them come with the gold mine itself, and the other one is a "good pickaxe" which was compensated by the system.

However, this did not stump Lei Chi. He immediately went to the armory and posted a task there: "Research a pickaxe".

"Developing a pickaxe is a higher priority than developing ranged weapons. Once Amei unlocks Faith Tengteng Technology, let him take on this task first. It's just a matter of how much research funding it will consume and how long it will take to develop..."

Lei Chi suddenly felt that the arsenal was very powerful.

"If we can really research and develop a pickaxe, and equip the Skeleton Mine Manager with six of them, then with the current gold mining efficiency, each digging action yields 16 copper coins. The Skeleton Mine Manager can mine 10 gold coins and 3680 copper coins per hour, and in less than 10 hours, he can mine 100 gold coins and level up..."

"If we could promote all five skeleton miners to skeleton mine managers and equip them with six pickaxes, wouldn't they be able to dig up more than 51 gold coins per hour, and more than 1244 gold coins per day? That would be a dream come true! Moreover, the higher the level of the skeleton mine manager, the higher the chance of digging up gems and archaeological tools. Amazing, amazing! In the future, I'll have my sister develop even more advanced pickaxes. Hahaha, this has opened up another path to wealth!"

Lei Chi was overjoyed, but he still had too little capital; he only had a little over 1400 gold coins left.

After a moment's thought, Lei Chi put all the gold coins into the gold mine treasure chest.

"That's too good for Qixinger. Hopefully, the system will compensate him even more after he steals all those gold coins..."

Lei Chi pondered silently.

He has many expenses now, such as upgrading the city defense center, investing in research, donating to the guild in exchange for contribution points, buying defense tower blueprints to accumulate more defense towers, and scavenging for [Wild Gems] in the trading house...

Lei Chi felt that no matter how many gold coins he had, it wouldn't be enough to spend.

A moment later, Lei Chi used the [Password Chest Upgrade Scroll] to upgrade the two gold mine chests in the gold mine hall into password chests.

The passwords for opening these two password treasure chests have been set by Lei Chi as: "Lei Chi Emperor is invincible" and "Lei Chi Emperor is mighty"!

As for the [Defense Tower Mutation Scroll] in the compensation chest, Lei Chi thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out how to use it.

In his opinion, among the first-tier defensive towers, the [Poor Ha] was already quite good, both in appearance and ability. If it could be upgraded to a higher tier, it would definitely be a powerful tower. Although it kept complaining about being poor, there was really no need to mutate it. If such a powerful skill as [Kinetic Ray] mutated and was destroyed, it would be a loss.

The design of the "Little Mischievous Monkey" is also quite good; there's no need for it to mutate. As for the other small towers and the Thunder Pool, they don't care about them.

Among the second-tier defensive towers, the [Water Cannon Turtle] is currently not very useful, but Lei Chi would prefer to use the [Defense Tower Mutation Scroll] on the melee beast tower, so that a ranged beast tower can be mutated.

A Tier 3 Saber-toothed Tiger would be a good candidate for mutation, but the failure rate of mutation is a bit high...

"Alright, let's hold off for now."

Lei Chi stored the [Defense Tower Mutation Scroll] in a safe, and then moved the safe to the stone chamber of the Ancient Sanctuary.

Next, Lei Chi went to fight in the defense tower arena. During this time, he chatted with Hua Tianbao and the others from time to time, urging Hua Tianbao to launch a guild war and invade Flying Fire Camp, Thug Gang, and so on.

Later, Hua Tianbao teamed up with Lei Chi, and the two played together, starting a 2v2 battle in the Tower Arena.

Despite Hua Tianbao's high level, he's a complete noob in the Tower Defense Arena. After all, he can only buy the "Big Yellow Duck" and "Big White Dove" blueprints with in-game currency. Lei Chi carried him through the entire game, making it incredibly fun for him.

The pleasant time passed quickly, and the protection period of Leichi Camp ended again. Leichi would return to the camp to await invasion. It took a full hour for Qixinger to arrive.

"Working class, you're late! Don't you have any sense of time? Can't you be more professional? Do you even want to get rich anymore...?"

Upon seeing Qixingge, Lei Chi immediately launched into a tirade of abuse.

Qixinger showed no fear, fighting the militia while exchanging barbs with Lei Chi: "You're the one who's just a laborer! What's the rush? Do you want to be humiliated by me? Don't I need to eat and sleep? Get out of the way! Don't block my path, let me grab the gold and leave. This lousy camp of yours doesn't have a single decent fighter, just a bunch of level 1 militiamen going around to their deaths, what trash..."

This Elemental Tower player is both aggressive and ruthless, spewing nonsense without thinking; the word "arrogant" practically has "arrogant" written on his head.

However, after he learned that there were more than 1,400 gold coins in the password treasure chest, he grinned from ear to ear, and cheekily shouted out the opening password, even bowing to the password treasure chest.

"This idiot..."

Lei Chi watched Qi Xin Ge collect the gold coins and silently sent a message to Hua Tianbao: "Brother Bao, how about we infiltrate a small player's secret camp together? Let's go in our war dragon boat!"

Hua Tianbao was still thinking about continuing to dominate in the arena, so he agreed on the spot.

Lei Chi then called on Lin Donglei and the other three, and a moment later, a collective invasion war was decided.

To Lei Chi's surprise, all the players of the Beast Tower gathered, including Xiao Qinghe.

The player whose account was compromised was, of course, Zisinger.

However, this person is unaware of this.

He stole a total of 1458 gold coins from the secret camp in Leichi, and then logged off to sleep after returning to the secret camp.