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Old Eggplant found it a little strange. What were these people chattering about? They had all gotten their tools, so they should hurry up and start farming. Why were they still dawdling around here?

He went over, wanting to hear what was going on.

One of human nature's traits was the desire to join in the fun and listen to gossip. Even if something had nothing to do with them, people could still walk over and say things like, "I knew he was that kind of person all along," just to satisfy their urge to run their mouths.

Old Eggplant discovered that the players' argument centered on two people.

He knew one of them. He was also a veteran player named Old C, who liked playing strange and unusual games and making review videos.

Old Eggplant didn't know the other one, but from the bits and pieces he overheard, he learned that the man was called Tanuki.

"Listen, when we're facing such a large number of monsters, we need to build a firepower position and flatten them with firepower. So it'd be better to build scattered gun emplacements!"

Tanuki said.

"Scattered gun emplacements will be too easy to destroy one by one. I think we should build a sturdy fortress. Look at the movies—don't they always have a fortress?"

Old C retorted.

The two seemed to be arguing over what kind of defensive fortifications they should build.

Old C's reasoning was that the fortress used to resist the Demon Tide in the movie was an ancient one left behind from the past. Reasoning backward from the plot, the thing capable of resisting the Demon Tide in this era had to be a gigantic fortress.

Tanuki, on the other hand, believed they should make use of their firepower advantage and build