He had sixteen days left.
In sixteen days, he would have to face two major crises at once.
One was the possible arrival of the Wraith King. The other was contact with other factions after the rainy season ended.
The rainy season would be followed by several months of winter.
Temperatures would plummet then, and few caravans or travelers would cross the wasteland. As in previous years, both the various factions and Northbank City would have countless things to rebuild, repairing damaged cities and walls. They would have no time to trade outside.
Since almost no one crossed the wasteland in winter, the major Families would not establish outposts there either.
Only after winter passed and spring came the following year would this wasteland bustle again.
His goal was to claim a seat at the table as soon as the rainy season ended.
Killing strange entities for eerie stones was how things worked during the rainy season. Afterward, strange entities would become harder to kill, and he would need other ways to earn eerie stones.
While considering his next plans, Chen Fan entered the Meat Grinder Passage and resumed installing cannon towers.
Over the past few days, Weiwei had dug quite a few more cavities in the Meat Grinder Passage.
One, two, three.
A cannon tower cost 480 eerie stones, and a Level-2 City Wall to conceal its opening cost sixty, for a total of 540 eerie stones.
That was the price of a single node in his Meat Grinder defense plan.
He intended to turn the Rear Base into a web of firepower that not even a mosquito could penetrate. Even if the Wraith King came, he could blast it full of holes.
After building twenty cannon towers in one go.
He had spent 10,800 eerie stones, bringing the