[Wooden Fence ×80]
Over an hour later, Ye Fei had eighty Wooden Fences in his inventory.
This time, he deliberately planned to expand the yard a little. Of course, the main reason was that he had plenty of basic timber.
Before it grew completely dark, he opened the homestead interface, chose the positions, and began placing them.
He made a square yard ten meters long and ten meters wide.
Then he placed two layers of fencing at every position.
Although the defense remained the same, if beasts appeared and broke through the outer layer, there would still be another layer of protection.
Besides, he could reposition the fences, moving a few from safe areas to block the spots under attack.
This setup was undeniably extravagant, but when the little fox woke Ye Fei in the middle of the night after he had fallen asleep, he realized that extravagance had its uses.
It was just past midnight. Ye Fei had not been asleep long when the little fox's sharp yelps woke him.
"Don't go out. We'll wear them down slowly!"
Standing outside his door, Ye Fei watched the wolves in the snow repeatedly swipe at the fences. He drew his bow and began attacking.
Single-digit durability losses floated above the fences. There were not many wolves outside-he counted only seven.
[Wild wolf attacking at night, Combat Power 28, Sharp Claws and Sharp Teeth, Group Attack, Burst]
Those were the stats of the six ordinary wolves.
[Wolf pack leader attacking at night, Combat Power 36, Sharp Claws and Sharp Teeth, Presence, Command]
The pack leader's special tag was Command. As for Presence, Ye Fei did not yet know what it did.
Under the pack leader's command, however, all the wolves were attacking the same fence.
Two thousand durability was a lot, and its twenty defense reduced the wolves' damage to single digits.
But with six wild wolves attacking together, even at one attack per second, a fence would not last a minute.
By the time Ye Fei went outside to check after being awakened, the first fence had already lost all its durability, and the second was under attack.
Ye Fei hurried to reposition a fence from beside it. With the new fence blocking the wolves, he targeted one wolf with his Wooden Arrows, trying to hit that same wolf with every shot.
The fence's durability was effectively a health bar. Now it was a contest between the two sides' health bars.
Ye Fei never moved too many fences at once. He always waited until the wolves thought they were about to break through before putting up a fresh one.
That kept the wolves from changing targets for the time being, allowing him to keep attacking.
After he wore down and killed the first wild wolf with his bow, the pack leader raised its head and howled.
"Awoooo-"
After that howl, the remaining five wild wolves immediately entered Burst mode, and their destructive power surged.
Ye Fei hurried to move other fences over to block them. Taking advantage of the reduced defense after the wolves activated Burst, he mechanically drew his bow again and again.
The wolves' Burst had a time limit. It fizzled out in less than a minute, followed by a sluggish period lasting a little over ten minutes.
Even while sluggish, though, their Combat Power was far higher than his, so fighting them was still extremely taxing.
But as long as the pack could not get in, he could slowly wear them down. To keep the little fox from rushing in and getting surrounded, he had to stop her from acting for now.
More Longbows and Wooden Arrows were still being made at the Crafting Bench nearby. Whenever he ran out, he collected fresh ones and kept going. With so much basic timber, he could afford to be extravagant.
As for beast bone, it still cost one point for two pieces, so buying it did not hurt for now. After all, while chopping wood that day, he had also earned a few points from ice and pine needles.
Only after he had worn down and killed all five ordinary wild wolves did the pack leader finally lose its nerve and try to flee.
"Yip!"
Held back from going outside, the little fox had long since grown restless after watching for so long.
Seeing the pack leader try to run, she sprang straight over the fence. With her speed boost active, she was much faster than the wolf, and she lunged directly at its eye with her claws.
She had also learned to run away immediately after striking.
Her attack made the pack leader abandon its escape. With one eye torn open, it turned back, searching for its target to take revenge.
While it hesitated and searched, Ye Fei had already repositioned the fences, enclosing the pack leader in the middle.
Only then did Ye Fei realize that remote placement was not just useful for adjusting his defenses-it could also be used to kill monsters.
As long as he had enough fences, he could trap attacking beasts in a particular area and simply attack that spot.
The pack leader was now surrounded. The injury to one eye had not taken much off its health bar, but it was currently consumed by a frenzied desire for revenge.
Ye Fei's arrows did little damage, but all he wanted now was to wear it down. He had never expected to land some kind of killing blow in one strike.
After more than another half hour, the pack leader finally collapsed.
[Successfully repelled the wild wolf pack's night attack. Reward: 80 Survival Points] [All wild wolves killed during the night attack. Reward: 80 Survival Points] [Resolved the wild wolf pack's night attack without injury. Obtained the "Wolf Pack Nemesis" aura: attacks against wolf-type creatures increased by 10%]
The three notifications appeared in succession, and Ye Fei sank weakly onto the ground, now covered by a thin layer of snow.
His stamina and energy were both depleted. If he had not kept telling himself he could not stop, he might have passed out from exhaustion long ago.
Thankfully, it was over!
There had been no warning about the beast attack, nor even any indication of when it started. The survival handbook only recorded that he had walked into the yard after being startled awake and seen wolves attacking the fences. Before that, there was no information about the wolves at all...
What a scam. What an absolute scam!
Still, the points were quite generous.
When he had killed the individual wild wolves and the pack leader earlier, there had been no reward notifications. He had thought defending his home did not earn rewards.
Now it seemed they had all been saved up and awarded together.
Including the points he already had, even after spending some, he now had 183.
Looking at the hundred-plus pieces of timber he had left, Ye Fei went back to make a few more Wooden Fences.
But he had used up far too many earlier. He could not complete the second ring of defenses for now, though after restoring the outermost layer, he at least had over twenty movable Wooden Fences left for emergencies.
"Qingxue, we really have meat to eat at home this time!"
After Ye Fei repositioned the fences, the seven wolf corpses were also inside the newly arranged enclosure.
He rested for a while and recovered a little stamina, then went over to the wolf corpses with his knife and got to work.
[Wolf meat ×48, beast sinew ×13, beast bone ×38, low-level leather ×45, intermediate leather (green) ×8, beast fang ×13, claws ×27, wolf beast essence stone ×4]
The haul was excellent, although Ye Fei found it strange that some wolves' tooth and claw drops might be one or two short.
But they had actually dropped four Beast Essence Stones for him.
He was very satisfied with that number.
"Yip, yip-yip-yip~"
Qingxue the Little Fox came over and stared at the Beast Essence Stones Ye Fei had not yet put away. She gazed up pleadingly, acting cute and wheedling-she wanted to eat them.
"You can eat wolf-type ones too?"
Ye Fei looked at the little fox. Wasn't the type designation supposed to be a restriction?
"Yip!"
When the little fox saw Ye Fei loosen his fingers so she could reach the Beast Essence Stones, she happily lowered her head and started gnawing.
She bit off a quarter of one in a single mouthful, her little paws resting on Ye Fei's hand. Only after eating all four did she happily roll over and fall asleep on her back in his palm.
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