Feng Yi planned to encircle his opponent, be it John or Fenny, anyone passing by him would surely be caught between attacks from both front and rear, creating a pincer movement to wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop. As the saying goes, "A single spark can start a prairie fire." With his stubborn spirit that never yielded (sneaky as an old fox), if he could take out one opponent early on, the battles to follow would become much simpler. No matter how he fought, he would always have a way to fight.

Feng Yi's mind raced with calculations, his face showing unwavering confidence and a wicked grin beginning to form at the corners of his mouth. Who would have thought that, in just a few short minutes, both of his squads would vanish into thin air. It felt like he was preparing to whack someone on the back with a brick, only to realize the target was a decoy and instead, he was the one ambushed and hit with a blunt stick from behind.

In this moment, Feng Yi was like a pitiful child who had lost his dream, or a patient who had suddenly developed autism—sullen and listless. The wicked smile on his face had disappeared, replaced by an indifferent expression. The failed sneak attack that should have been his trump card led to raucous laughter among the officers and soldiers...

What to do now? With half his main forces lost, whether the remaining soldiers at home could hold the fort was a matter of debate. Adhering to the principle of steadfast defense, Feng Yi managed his remaining frontline troops to scatter in all directions, while at the same time building defense systems at home. Whether ground defenses or air defenses, the main goal was to hold off the current wave before thinking further.

To strike while the iron is hot, Feng Yi's base had hardly known a moment of peace, with wave after wave of enemy attacks never letting up. Feng Yi had just barely managed to fend off one wave, only for the next to arrive soon after. If it weren't for the enemy squandering some time after building their soldiers by running to his main base, and the frantic defensive measures Feng Yi piled on at his base, he would have found it hard to last until now.

At this point, Feng Yi's struggling troops were in peril, the feeble soldiers at his base constantly wavering between slaughter and reprisal. Surrounding his base, you could see buildings spurting blood left and right—a racial feature of the alien species when their bio-structures are attacked. Their buildings, evolved from the bodies of the alien species, slowly regain health without needing explicit repair, something the human race cannot do. The drawback is that the recovery speed is slower than that of humans repairing their structures. Moreover, humans must spend a certain amount of crystals to repair, while the alien species needs not spend anything.

Perpetual defense was clearly not a viable strategy. Feng Yi lacked the resources to sustain a war of attrition. This game lacked mechanics that granted money or experience levels upon killing enemy soldiers, so no matter how many enemy soldiers Feng Yi killed, his income and soldier strength remained unchanged. While his miners gathered one unit of ore, the enemy, being two players, was able to gather two units, and as time wore on the gap between them would only widen.

What would be the next step? If you asked Feng Yi, he had no answer. Yet humans are a particular kind of creature, highly adaptable. Regardless of the changes of the four seasons, human traces can be found across the world, something animals do not do. Animals hibernate at specific times, reproduce at specific times; penguins of Antarctica would not run to Africa, and African wildlife could not survive in Antarctica.

But humans are different. The so-called survival of the fittest—the species hailed as a scourge of the universe—always manages to slowly adapt to its environment and find a way out.

Anyone subjected to continuous bullying by two opponents would naturally reflexively consider escaping such self-harming circumstances, either by giving up and surrendering or by finding a solution. Feng Yi was not one to give up easily. He could be beaten into learning a thing or two. After his soldiers died in several waves, Feng Yi realized that he could not go on like this, that he would be doomed sooner or later.

He began to try new tactics, first controlling the soldiers with only a sliver of health left to burrow underground and recover slowly—after all, regeneration was free. Then he started manufacturing new soldiers to confront the enemy. Before long, he noticed the multi-headed creature's health had slowly recovered to half. So, he stealthily continued to use this method to maintain a healthy cycle without the enemy noticing.

As expected, in just ten short minutes, he had managed to stabilize his economy at a level conducive to a healthy developmental cycle. In other words, now whenever the enemy sent over a squad of soldiers, it was a one-way trip—after dying, they had to build anew.

Meanwhile, the soldiers under Feng Yi's control were mostly retreating with just a sliver of health left, then sneakily burrowing underground when out of the enemy's sight, giving the illusion that his forces were still barely holding on at the brink of death.

In the blink of an eye, ten minutes had passed quietly. On the surface, it seemed Feng Yi was wasting funds on defensive systems, with the same group of half-dead soldiers surrounding the base, engaging in endless rounds of back-and-forth skirmishes with the enemy, as if locked in a joyous exchange of blows.

But in reality, most of Feng Yi's troops hidden underground had fully recovered their health, ready to strike.

From the current perspective, while he did have some advantages, they were still too slight to claim.

His advantage lay solely in the soldiers that had escaped with just a trace of health left during the skirmish with Fenny, then burrowed underground to become hidden units, slowly recovering.

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