Chapter 2890: Reading

Fang Heng put away the Book of Elements.

Elemental skills were still very useful for constructing defensive buildings.

Of course, there were drawbacks. The defense effect of the Earth Barrier was only average, unable to withstand too many attacks.

Fang Heng turned around and saw the Federation soldiers looking at him with astonished eyes.

A high-tier elemental player!

The Earth Barrier skill was one that many players could use; it was an advanced skill in the elemental system. However, no one had ever used it in such an exaggerated way.

“Fang Heng, you’re impressive! Didn’t expect you to have this move!”

Jayne quickly recovered from his shock, walking over to Fang Heng’s side and praising him. “I thought you were a summoner, but turns out you’re an elemental player.”

“Just know a little.”

Collete, who had been listening to their conversation, was also a bit confused.

Elemental? Summoner?

Wasn’t Fang Heng a logistics player?

But what was he doing with such a huge barrier?

Collete was completely puzzled by Fang Heng’s actions and walked up to him, asking, “Fang Heng, is this an Earth Barrier?”

“To avoid being harassed by the swarm, I made a simple barrier.”

“Ah?”

Collete thought to himself that this barrier might not be enough to block the swarm.

“Don’t worry, we’ll ensure the mission is completed.”

Fang Heng said as he patted Collete on the shoulder and then opened the game hint panel to start gathering a Licker swarm. He nodded and said, “You guys continue setting up the temporary camp, don’t worry about me. If there’s anything, I’ll come find you.”

With that, Fang Heng walked toward the massive Earth Barrier, leaving the group in confusion.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…

Tiny white light spots surrounded Fang Heng’s body.

What the heck?

Collete was shocked to see Fang Heng’s body disappear as if he had walked directly into the Earth Barrier.

“Wha…?”

Collete was stunned.

Where did he go? Into the barrier? How did he do that?

Was it a talent ability?

“It’s spatial ripple.”

A Federation lieutenant, who had been silent all this time, looked at Fang Heng’s disappearing direction, his face serious. He said in a low voice, “From my judgment, it should be secondary space projection. Given how casually he did it, his spatial science level must be pretty high.”

“Everyone, what’s all this fuss about?”

Boyd laughed and patted everyone’s shoulders. “Alright, the guy’s fine for now. The captain hasn’t given any new orders. Let’s focus on building the temporary camp. We have to do it sooner or later.”

Collete scratched his head.

Something felt off.

It seemed like these people were really preparing to carry out the mission.

…..

Inside the Earth Barrier.

A crack appeared on the ground.

Lickers began crawling out of the crack, quickly expanding it until an underground passageway appeared.

Moments later, transport robots began pushing boxes onto the ground.

“Next… let’s start learning…”

Fang Heng walked up to the boxes and opened one, revealing books filled with instructions for constructing a prism-based mutant worm purification network.

Eighteen volumes!

Each volume contained dozens of books.

More than two hundred Lickers continuously emerged from the underground cave, forming flesh cocoons inside the cave.

Zombie clones crawled out of the flesh cocoons and, wobbling, walked toward the boxes. As they passed by the boxes, they picked up a book and found a spot to read.

[Hint: The player’s zombie clone (normal form) is using the reading skill to read Prism Defense Construction System, Volume 1, Third Edition (reading prerequisites met). Current reading success rate: 12%.]

[Hint: The player’s zombie clone…]

After a few minutes, each zombie clone held a book, and a slow channeling bar appeared above their heads.

Due to the segmented reading, lacking connections between volumes, the success rate was generally low, mostly in the single digits.

Fang Heng wasn’t in a hurry.

With so many zombie clones, after a few rounds, some would get lucky and successfully complete reading, which was much more efficient than grinding it out himself.

The reading time wasn’t long–about 20 minutes later, the channeling bars above the zombie clones’ heads were completed one by one.

[Hint: The player’s zombie clone (normal form) successfully read the book, but failed to master the skill… Player gains partial related experience… Player’s mastery success rate will increase by 5-10% upon rereading.]

Fang Heng looked at the game hint.

As expected, after a failed reading, they gained some experience points, and the success rate for mastering the skill would increase by 5-10% the next time they read.

He continued! He would let the zombie clones keep grinding.

After a few hours of this, it would probably be done.

So, what was next…

Fang Heng lowered his head and thought.

The Prism Defense Construction System was divided into three stages.

According to Collete, when they activated the prism tower during the second stage, the energy waves released by the tower would cause the surrounding swarm to sense a threat.

At that time, a large number of Lickers would likely gather to guard the prism tower’s safety.

But considering that the swarm included long-range Rock Armored Gun Worms, Fang Heng couldn’t be sure if the defense would be enough to stop all their attacks.

Instead of waiting for that, why not take advantage of the current time and try to clear a few insect nests, weakening the upcoming insect swarm?

After all, if he had free time, he might as well clear as many as possible!

With his mind made up, Fang Heng left the zombie clones in the cave to continue reading the construction manual, stood up, and used his secondary space projection skill to teleport outside the Earth Barrier.

Outside the barrier.

Boyd and the Federation soldiers had just finished setting up the framework for the temporary camp and were waiting for materials to continue the construction when they saw Fang Heng walk out from the Earth Barrier. They all turned their eyes toward him.

Jayne waved at Fang Heng from a distance, “Fang Heng, how’s the situation? Do you need help?”

“Hmm,” Fang Heng nodded, walking over to Jayne. He glanced around and asked, “Where’s Collete?”

“He just left. We needed some materials for the temporary base, so he went to see if he could help transport them. He’s also responsible for the overall ship transport, so he can’t stay here and supervise everything.”

“Alright, no worries. Jayne, I do need your assistance.”

“No problem. What should I do?”

“There are a large number of insect nests nearby, and the swarm might impact the prism defense system later. I want to take this opportunity to clear some of the nests.”

Jayne’s expression immediately turned serious when he heard that it was about clearing insect nests.

He had seen the strength of Fang Heng’s summoned creatures with his own eyes.

If they had summoned creatures to help, they would clear the insect nests efficiently, and they could even gain Federation merit in the process.