He called it an "Arrow Cart"

"Fight our way back?"

For a moment, Zhou Mo failed to grasp what those words meant. His legs were still trembling uncontrollably. He looked toward the darkening sky beyond the walls. There was only a little over an hour left before eternal night descended.

Time was running short.

Besides...

He knew the Station Master was a Builder with enormous potential, but a Builder's abilities mainly involved fortifying the Camp. Their combat capabilities outside it were practically nonexistent. How could they fight their way out?

"How far are those Impostors from the Camp?"

"Not far. Just behind that Mountain slope, near Wang Kui's old Camp."

"Let's go."

"..."

Chen Fan walked down from the City Wall and headed to the outskirts of the Camp. Looking at the wooden Three-Wheeler parked in the wilderness, he immediately built an Arrow Tower and mounted it on the cart bed.

Then he upgraded it repeatedly.

He took it straight to level 4.

When it reached level 3, the upgrade path he chose was—

"Bolts will carry the lightning element, effectively paralyzing enemies and dealing a certain amount of chain damage to up to three creatures near the target struck."

He knew about Strange Entities like Impostors.

Their defenses were weak.

Their main strength lay in deception, so this effect would work well against them.

When it reached level 4, he chose to increase its firing rate.

Soon—

The Arrow Tower transformed into an Arrow Fort, shrinking several times over and becoming embedded in the wooden Three-Wheeler.

This was a combination of an Arrow Tower and a Three-Wheeler.

He called it...

An "Arrow Cart."

"Get on. You're in charge of the Power Rod."

Chen Fan jumped aboard first and stood in front of the Control Lever. He looked at Zhou Mo, who stood stunned nearby. "We're short on time. Stop spacing out."

"Right!"

Zhou Mo wasted no more time and immediately jumped onto the Handcart. Having witnessed his companion's death, his eyes were bloodshot, and veins bulged on his hands as he gripped the Power Rod tightly. Once the Station Master adjusted their heading, he pushed the Power Rod with all his strength.

With that driving force...

The Arrow Cart slowly rolled out of the Camp and disappeared into the gloomy Rain.

"Young Master..."

Chen Fan had left so quickly that he had barely exchanged a word with them. Only the few of them remained in the Camp, but...

"What a brilliant idea."

Crippled Monkey gazed in the direction the Young Master had gone and murmured in a daze, "Of course. Just combine an Arrow Tower with a carriage, and you've got a mobile Arrow Tower. Why has nobody ever used one like that before?"

"People have, actually. It just never caught on, for several reasons." Wang Kui answered with a complicated expression. "For instance... Arrow Towers can't attack creatures outside the Camp."

"Oh, right. In that case... wait, how is the Young Master's Arrow Cart supposed to attack creatures outside the Camp?"

"I don't know, but I'm sure the Station Master has thought of that."

"What if he hasn't?"

Crippled Monkey paced uneasily. The Young Master had left so quickly that he had not even told them where those Impostors were. Even if Crippled Monkey wanted to follow, he would not know where to look for him.

Jiangbei Chen Family Station No. 37 was not very far from Wang Kui's former Station.

Once they crossed a Mountain slope...

They spotted the Impostors.

They were gathered in Wang Kui's former Station.

They could clearly see more than twenty Impostors having indiscriminate sex in the gloomy Rain. Their expressions were exceedingly strange, twisted with a madness that bordered on frenzy.

"..."

Standing at the front of the Three-Wheeler, Chen Fan watched the scene in expressionless silence. He was actually rather angry. Trapped in the Wasteland during the Rain season, every person was an incredibly valuable resource.

An utterly nonrenewable resource.

To him, a person was worth far more than a hundred eerie stones.

Now that one person had died...

It meant he had no choice but to reassign someone in the Camp from another job to work as Zhou Mo's assistant.

There had originally been ten people in the Camp. Now there were only nine.

Just then—

The Impostors noticed them too. With a piercing shriek, those hiding inside the Wooden Hut rushed out. Together with the ones outside, they roared and charged at Chen Fan and Zhou Mo!

They were slightly faster than a middle-aged man running at full speed.

They were nothing like the mother and daughter he had encountered. They made no attempt at disguise, simply roaring as they charged, madness gleaming in their eyes.

A hundred meters.

Eighty meters.

Fifty meters.

In the blink of an eye...

They were less than thirty meters away. Yet the Arrow Fort embedded in the Three-Wheeler showed no reaction. Outside the Camp, it could not activate at all.

Chen Fan waited no longer.

As he crushed three eerie stones in his palm, a phantom Eerie Fire formed from White Grade lines gradually coalesced on the cart bed and became solid.

By then, the Impostors had charged into the Camp's range.

The previously unresponsive Arrow Fort now flashed with white light inside its pitch-black opening.

The next instant—

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Bolts shrouded in lightning shot toward the Strange Entities about to reach the Three-Wheeler, as swift as spears hurled by the Thunder God.

The first Impostor struck froze almost instantly, its entire body charred black. It staggered a few more steps before collapsing to the ground. At the same time, a streak of lightning surged from its body and shot toward the three nearest Impostors.

In the blink of an eye...

Those three Impostors caught in the attack were instantly reduced to charcoal as well.

This was the upgrade path chosen when the Arrow Fort reached level 3.

Upon striking a target, it would deal a certain amount of chain damage and paralysis to up to three nearby creatures.

Its main effect was actually paralysis, and the damage was fairly low. But the Impostors' defenses were so weak that even this modest damage could kill them instantly.

Each bolt could easily claim the lives of three Impostors.

However...

"..."

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, watching the new Impostors rushing out of the Wooden Hut through the distant Rain. There were far more than thirty of them here, and this new batch emerging from the hut was clearly younger.

If the Impostors initially outside had all been middle-aged...

Then those now rushing out from inside were young adults.

"So that's how it is."

Looking thoughtfully at one of the middle-aged female Impostors, he turned the cart around. He kept moving away from the group while ensuring they remained within his Arrow Tower's attack range, steadily slaughtering whichever Impostors reached the front.

After all the middle-aged Impostors that had charged out first were killed...

The Arrow Tower ceased firing.

He did not continue attacking.

Instead, he began crafting multiple Beast Traps and placing them along the path the Impostors took as they chased the Three-Wheeler. He wanted to capture them alive.

The Impostors possessed some intelligence, but not much. As they chased the Three-Wheeler in circles, one after another stepped into the Beast Traps and was caught in place, roaring and unable to move.

About ten minutes later...

The Three-Wheeler stopped.

Not a single Impostor remained standing free. The older Impostors were all dead, while the younger ones were all caught in Beast Traps, struggling incessantly with brutality and madness flickering in their eyes.

"..."

Standing on the Three-Wheeler, Chen Fan looked toward the Wooden Hut in Wang Kui's Camp nearby. He had circled the hut several times already, but not a single Impostor had come out. He looked back at Zhou Mo and said softly,

"There should be some baby Impostors inside. Go take a look."

"I'll cover you from outside."