Chapter 885: Chapter 841: Fall!
_1 Chapter 885: Chapter 841: Fall!
_1 Once the uniquely shaped clockwork guns appeared, players understood one thing: Flintlocks are not invincible.
Only things that go beyond the developer’s designs could possibly be invincible.
The ergence of the clockwork guns confird that firearms were indeed a part of the developers’ design.
Their appearance just happened so late, that everyone mistakenly thought that the players developed thermal weapons were “cheating weapons” – of course, Cloud Dream’s achievents were quite misleading…
Since these are things that were originally a part of the ga, they certainly can’t be invincible.
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The challenges that Shuihua and Victoria later faced could be used to validate this.
For the first six rounds, the effects of the flintlock were astounding, striking major blows to the opponent with each successful shot, leading them to victory.
For the middle six rounds, the effect of the flintlock began to weaken and the difficulty of landing a shot increased significantly.
Even successful hits couldn’t single-handedly win the battle anymore.
For the final six rounds, the flintlock was no better than hidden weapons.
As soon as it was pulled out, the NPC would imdiately beco alert, often dodging or blocking as soon as you aid.
The combat was still very tough.
Thanks to intelligence provided by her viewers, Shuihua was able to take up a task from two NPCs nad “John” and “Weike”, and learnt a martial arts secret called [Archery Combat Technique].
After compensating for their shortcomings in close combat to so extent, Shuihua finally completed the last six challenges.
This is why they were so behind in catching up with the main team’s progress.
Lance joined the ga just to play with Shuihua, so he didn’t mind.
But Shuihua did mind.
She wanted to catch up on so progress for Lance.
So when they accepted the mission from Francis, she asked very carefully:
“What does this [relic] you’re talking about look like?”
“Would these [relics] have corroded after so much ti?”
“Are these [relics] sturdy?
Would they be smashed, shattered, soaked and ruined?”
…
Francis’s replied, “No!
Items that can be called [relics] are all impervious to water or fire, and will not decay for generations.
Even books are made of the most precious materials, enough to last for centuries.”
“I see…” Shuihua nodded and accepted this task.
But instead of heading for the underground tunnel leading to chanism City, she and Lance and Victoria returned to the surface and shared her idea:
“How about…
we flood chanism City!”
“Huh?” Victoria and Lance both were taken aback.
One was thinking about gambling on luck, and the other was thinking about what preparations they needed to make.
Neither could keep pace with Shuihua’s train of thought.
“Look…” Shuihua explained to these two stunned individuals, “Starting from this underground tunnel, it takes one kiloter to reach the bronze gate of chanism City.
By estimating on the map, chanism City should be right below Furong Garden!”
“You an…
the Qujiang Pool?” Lance responded, “Fill the entire chanism City with lake water from the Qujiang Pool?”
This outrageous idea left his mouth agape, and he couldn’t help but imagine the scene of the enormous lake water pouring down.
Unlike Lance, Victoria wasn’t so blindly trusting in Shuihua’s words.
She asked rationally, “The question is, how are we going to pour water underground?
Even if two places overlap, how many people would we need to dig down?”
“We surely can’t have a thousand players to do the hard labour, right?”
“Moreover, we don’t know how big chanism City really is.
What if it gets entirely filled?
We can’t locate the [relics] underwater, can we?”
With sparkling eyes, Shuihua earnestly answered Victoria’s questions, “It shouldn’t be enough to fill it all.
I’ve watched a few live streams, and so people heard the sound of an underground river down there.
The place should be connected to the outside, otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough air.”
“More importantly: such a big city can’t possibly have such a narrow entrance and exit as the underground tunnel.
It’s impossible to build the city this way, Cloud Dream wouldn’t design sothing so illogical, only that nobody has found that entrance yet.”
“As for how to find the [relics]…
we follow the water!
Follow the water and we can find the exit, and then we’ll just pick up the garbage at the exit.
Even if we don’t find the [relics], the monsters and chanisms in chanism City would be mostly destroyed by then, which would definitely make the search much easier.”
“Lastly, how do we get the water down there…rember how we got all the way from the surface to hell in Terraria?”
Victoria was stunned by this series of ideas and didn’t react imdiately.
Lance, however, answered without hesitation, following Shuihua’s train of thought: “Hell’s Elevator!”
[Hell’s Elevator]: A standard strategy in Terraria.
From the spawn point, players blow up a deep well with explosives and keep going straight down until they reach hell.
Victoria blinked, “Do we have that much explosive?”
It’s now the fifth day since the ga’s release, gunpowder is not as rare as it was at the start, players could acquire so to so extent.
But to blast a passage – they didn’t have nearly enough.
But that didn’t bother Shuihua at all, she introduced a new concept: “We can crowdfund!”
“Crowdfunding?” Victoria was again puzzled.
“Yes, crowdfunding!
As long as you donate a barrel of explosives, you can take part in the grand scavenging of chanism City!
As long as it’s not our mission item, they can take whatever they want!”
Victoria felt that this approach seems too chaotic, but after thinking about it, apart from being a bit outrageous, it seed that there hasn’t been any problem.
Lance, on the other hand, had already given his praise: “A genius idea!
Perfect for the show, let’s get to it!”
“Hey, hey, hey…” Just when Victoria wanted to calm Lance down and consider it a bit more, she found her viewers in her live stream room had already begun to sign up passionately:
“Count in!
Count in!”
“I’ll donate 5 barrels!
Pull in!”
“3 barrels.
I don’t want anything.
I just want to see the scene!”
“I only have one barrel, but I can be free labor.
I’m good at digging holes.”
“Here are the builders, uninvited, after five years!”
…
Therefore, Victoria realized: there was no need to persuade anymore.
This plan, whether feasible or not, has already successfully ignited the enthusiasm of so many players.
Now, they are all eager to bring their own explosives and dried food, eager to join in on this big excitent.
The “all equipnt and items welco” decoy drawn by Shuihua is not important; her idea alone is enough to attract a large number of enthusiastic players.
“Alright then…” Victoria resigned herself and started gathering people.
“Rember to make dynamite barrels before coming!”
anwhile, Lance also began to invite others, and Francis’s backyard was soon packed.
Everyone left Quchi Alley and ca to Furong Garden, while simultaneously conveying information to the builders on the most suitable blast location, and each person was given permissions to invite ten people to join them.
Fifteen minutes later, the builders had chosen the location, and inviting people also ca to a temporary halt.
Over three hundred players, wielding several tis more dynamite barrels, equipped with shovels and carrying baskets, gathered beside the lake.
Most of the NPCs voluntarily moved away, but there were a few that unusuallyca to watch the excitent.
Everyone was aware of the security alarm chanism, so to prevent accidental injuries that could summon the army, they not only drove away these NPCs, but also purposely dispatched a team to fend off the approaching NPCs.
Then, without any further delay, three dynamite barrels were thrown into the small pit dug by the builders.
The fuse was lit and set off directly—
“Boom!”
The explosion was so close that everyone could feel the ground shaking.
But the pit blown out by the dynamite barrel was not very deep, on the other hand, it was quite wide—a large pit with a depth of two ters and a diater of over eight ters appeared on the spot.
The builders persevered and dug another pit at the bottom of the first one, put the dynamite barrel in, and detonated it.
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“Boom!”
The effect this ti was much better, the blasting power was relatively concentrated, and the soil was blown up to over five ters high.
After inspecting the depth of the hole and the soil blown out of it, the builders quickly ca to a conclusion—
“There’s no need to clear the dirt.”
“Most of the dirt has been ‘removed’ by the explosion.”
——Obviously, Cloud Dream hadn’t built a separate model for each grain of soil to save processing power.
If you dig with a shovel, all the soil would definitely be there.
But when using dynamite, Cloud Dream wouldn’t calculate the direction of each grain of soil, but just destroy the soil in the explosion range, and then give a soil splash special effect.
The amount of soil left on the site was actually very small, just enough to fulfill the special effect.
Everyone then discarded their digging tools and began to throw dynamite barrels into the pit one after another.
The muffled sound of explosions rang out ti and ti again, the ground under their feet rumbled endlessly, and finally, not even a shadow of the NPC could be seen running away.
The hole grew deeper and deeper.
Until a dynamite barrel was thrown down and there was no sound of it hitting the ground.
Only after a long ti did the faint sound of an explosion echo out.
Shuihua and Victoria, alert, ran to the edge of the hole and peered down.
Despite only seeing a vague white light, they still believed that the tunnel had reached chanism City!
Otherwise, where would the white light co from more than a hundred ters underground?
“I’ll go take a look!” One of the builders volunteered and expertly leapt into the deep hole, which was about three to four ters in diater.
“Wuhu~~~ ”
Everyone gathered around the hole and watched as the builder quickly fell, disappearing into the white light.
Only the echo of his “Wuhu” remained in the hole.
After a while, the builder’s report ca through the team channel, “The position is right, it’s definitely chanism City below!
I’ve respawned at the bottom of a tower.”
With the confirmation completed, the next task was simple: expand the hole, bring water!
There was still a large amount of dynamite barrels left at the site.
The builders quickly directed everyone to quickly locate and detonate the barrels, blasting their way from a depth of 30 ters to the bottom of Qujiang Pool.
Only five minutes passed before the last explosion echoed out, the channel was successfully connected to the bottom of the lake, and a heavy stream of water poured straight from the bottom into the hole, falling vertically into the deep well.
“A great success!”
There were cheers at the site, everyone was excited as they gathered around the hole, watching as the raging water flow intensified below.
So people had already started tying hollowed gourds to their bodies, planning to jump in once the water flow steadied.
But the water flow did not stabilize, it intensified!
The waterway even began to widen due to water pressure, with the column of water erging becoming bigger and bigger, and the flow rate rising steadily.
Not only was the channel leading to the bottom of the lake being widened by the water flow, but also this vertical channel leading to chanism City, without any form of reinforcent, rapidly softened under the swift erosion of the water flow, with a large amount of soil being swept away by the water flow towards chanism City.
The result was: the channel began to widen rapidly!
The wider the channel, the bigger the flow of water!
The bigger the water flow, the wider the channel!
Just like a chain of dominoes, once the chain reaction began, it was completely out of control.
By the ti Shuihua beca aware of the problem, it was already too late!
The massive water flow roared downward, inexplicably producing the sound of surging waves.
Even the ground beneath their feet beca rapidly softer, and then—
It collapsed with a thud!
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