260: Chapter 260 Charge In

[Customer 'Soldier Wang Tiezhu' opened a B-grade war blade 'Po Jun', triggering a 60-fold return. The host receives A-grade war weapon 'Dragon-Slaying Blade' × 68]

[Customer 'Machine Gunner Li Ergou' opened an A-grade burst Medicinal Pill 'Blood-Burning Pill', triggering a 90-fold return. The host receives S-grade Medicinal Pill 'Divine Blood Boiling Pill' × 91]

[Customer 'Medic Zhao Xiaofang' opened a C-grade healing medicine 'Spring-Returning Powder', triggering a 40-fold return. The host receives B-grade potion 'Fountain of Life' × 47]

The screen was flooded with notifications.

A frantic flood of notifications.

The hundred-fold return mechanism was fully activated.

In Lin Fan's system space, high-level resources were skyrocketing at an exponential rate.

A-grade war weapons were piled up like mountains.

S-grade Medicinal Pills filled entire crates.

There were so many B-grade potions they could be drunk like water.

But it still wasn't enough.

Lin Fan adjusted his glasses and cast his gaze beyond the city walls.

There, the alien race's offensive had temporarily stalled due to the counterattack of the suicide squad, but more aliens were massing.

Three Siege Behemoths let out world-shaking roars in the distance.

Alien wizards began chanting their next wave of attack Spells.

“Hou San.”

Lin Fan spoke into the communicator.

“Here, Boss!”

“Hang up the price tag for the purple blind boxes.”

“Understood!”

Below the city walls, Hou San nimbly set up a new sign.

On the sign, bold red characters read:

[purple blind box: Original Price 5 million, Today's Special 500,000]

[Guaranteed A-grade item]

[Limited to 100 units, first come first served]

The sign had barely been set up.

A figure rushed to the front of the stall.

It was Chen Feng.

The commander of this section of the defense line in the Seventh War Zone.

He was covered in blood, with a wound on his left shoulder so deep the bone was visible, but his eyes were frighteningly bright.

“Minister Lin.”

Chen Feng's voice was hoarse.

“I want ten purple blind boxes.”

Lin Fan jumped down from the city wall and landed in front of Chen Feng.

“Commander Chen, they're 500,000 each; ten would be 5 million.”

“Do you have that much money?”

Chen Feng pulled out a Storage Ring from his robes and slammed it onto the counter with a 'pah'.

“Everything I own is in here—my house, car, and savings. It adds up to about 4.8 million.”

“I'm still short 200,000. I'll use my general's sidearm as collateral.”

He unbuckled the silver pistol from his waist and placed it next to the ring.

“The gun is custom-made, a B-grade weapon, worth 300,000.”

“The extra 100,000, consider it my debt to you.”

Lin Fan looked at the blood-stained ring and the polished, worn pistol.

He fell silent for two seconds.

Then he smiled.

“Commander Chen, you're a smart man.”

“You know when it's time to gamble.”

He took ten purple blind boxes from his system space and piled them in front of Chen Feng.

“Open them.”

“Let me see if your luck matches your determination.”

Chen Feng did not hesitate.

He tore open the first blind box.

A purple light shot into the sky.

Within the light, a set of pitch-black battle armor slowly emerged.

The armor's surface flowed with a liquid-metal luster, and a fist-sized red crystal was embedded in the chest.

A-grade battle armor, 'Obsidian'.

Once activated, its defense is comparable to a Peak Grandmaster, and it comes with a built-in energy shield and strength-amplifying Formation.

Market price: 8 million.

Chen Feng's hands were trembling.

He tore open the second blind box.

This time, a long spear was revealed.

The shaft was shaped like a dragon, the tip glinted coldly, and the spear tassel was a burning flame.

A-grade war weapon, 'Prairie Fire'.

One thrust sets the prairie ablaze—an area-of-effect attack specially designed to counter swarms of enemies.

Market price: 9 million.

The third blind box.

It contained a bottle of Medicinal Pills.

The pills were solid gold in color with nine pill veins on the surface.

A-grade Medicinal Pill, 'Realm-Breaking Pill'.

If taken at the Martial Master Peak, there is a 30% chance of a direct Breakthrough to Grandmaster.

Market price: 12 million.

The fourth, the fifth, the sixth...

All ten blind boxes were opened.

Chen Feng was surrounded by a pile of A-grade resources.

The total value exceeded one hundred million.

And the price he paid was all his worldly possessions plus a sidearm.

“Was it worth it?”

Lin Fan asked the question again.

Chen Feng looked up, his eyes bloodshot.

“It was worth it.”

“More than worth it.”

“With these things, I can help my brothers hold out for three more days.”

“In three days, how many civilians can be evacuated from the rear? How many reinforcements can arrive?”

He took a deep breath and gave Lin Fan a standard military salute.

“Minister Lin, on behalf of the three thousand brothers on this defense line, I thank you.”

Lin Fan waved his hand.

“Don't thank me.”

“I'm a businessman, not a philanthropist.”

“You spent the money, I provided the goods. It's a fair trade.”

He paused and looked at the alien army drawing closer outside the walls.

“However, Commander Chen, I suggest you take the pill right now.”

“Put on the armor.”

“Grip the spear tight.”

“Because...”

Lin Fan adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting the crimson eyes of those three behemoths in the distance.

“The guests have arrived.”

“And there are many of them.”

As soon as he finished speaking.

Outside the city walls, the alien army launched their general offensive.

This time, it was no longer a probe.

The three Siege Behemoths began to march, each step making the earth tremble.

Tens of thousands of alien heavy infantry followed behind the behemoths like a black torrent of steel.

In the sky, the alien wizards finished their chanting.

Dozens of corrosive acid bolts and energy beams slammed into the city walls like a torrential rain.

“Defend!”

Chen Feng roared hoarsely.

He swallowed the Realm-Breaking Pill, donned the Obsidian armor, and gripped the Prairie Fire spear.

The Martial Master Peak Bottleneck shattered instantly under the pill's effects.

The aura of the Grandmaster Realm erupted from him.

“Brothers!”

Chen Feng leaped onto the battlements, his spear pointing outside the city.

“Today, we'll let these scumbags know—”

“The Human Race's defense line isn't something they can break just because they want to!”

“Kill!”

Three thousand soldiers roared in unison.

They swallowed the burst pills from the blind boxes, put on the armor they had opened, and gripped their new weapons.

Their previously desperate morale burned to its peak at this moment.

Because everyone had a trump card.

Everyone had hope.

Lin Fan stood at the highest point of the wall, watching the boiling battlefield below.

He pulled out his communicator and pressed the call button.

“Zhang Hao.”

“Right here, Brother Fan!”

Zhang Hao's excited voice came through the communicator.

“Take the Villain Squad and charge out from the flank.”

“Target: the alien logistics units.”

“Dismantle whatever can be dismantled, and carry off whatever can be moved.”

“Remember—”

Lin Fan adjusted his glasses, a 'kind' smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

“We're here to restock our inventory.”

“Not to fight a war.”

“Understood!”

The communication cut off.

On the flank of the city wall, a purple lightning bolt shot into the sky.

Zhang Hao transformed into his Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Body, his entire being wreathed in violent lightning, like a thunder god descended to earth.

Behind him, the entire Villain Squad was assembled.

Tie Niu wore a set of rock armor he'd opened, carrying a battle-axe the size of a door.

Old Drunkard lay on the battlements, holding an all-silver sniper rifle, the muzzle aimed at a squad leader in the distant alien ranks.

Hou San, Doctor, and Yellow Great Immortal each held bizarre new items they'd opened, their faces practically screaming the words 'troublemaker'.

“Brothers.”

Zhang Hao turned back with a grin.

“Brother Fan said everything is 90% off today.”

“So we've got to put in some effort too.”

“Charge in!”

He raised his hand and pointed toward the supply convoy at the rear of the alien army.

“Empty them out!”

“Roar!”

The Villain Squad pounced forward like hungry wolves.