Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch-Chapter 699 - 664: Right Here in This Code

Chapter 699: Chapter 664: Right Here in This Code

However, despite his admiration, Stanley wasn’t too optimistic.

An obvious fact was that Lincoln was definitely not a fool.

On the contrary, although people often criticized him for being inhuman, no one had doubts about his intelligence.

At most, people would often complain: Lincoln possesses a genius brain, but he seems too lazy to use it…

Since Stanley had just crashed the game once before, Lincoln must’ve inspected it carefully after that incident.

Even if he didn’t manage to completely fix all the loopholes, it was unlikely that someone would find another vulnerability within less than a day, right?

But he wouldn’t pour cold water on the situation at this time.

He took the viewers to see the “accelerator ruins” in his world while waiting for the cannon test on the other side.

As for what the audience wanted him to “perform again,” Stanley decisively refused.

Even if Lincoln had limited his speed, he wasn’t sure if he could withstand another attempt in his current condition.

…

15 minutes later, over two million players gathered in the [Cannon Cult] live broadcast room, looking forward to the upcoming scene.

In the live-screen, dense bright red wires filled the entire field of view, forming an intricate grid. From afar, it looked like a piece of red silk woven with red lines.

But when the highlighted display of the wires was hidden, what came into view was an endless expanse of dark cannon muzzles.

Anything, when formed on a large enough scale and neatly arranged, would naturally create a breathtaking impact.

The love for grand scenes was rooted in the veins of every Daxia native.

If this “grand scene” could simultaneously produce a “firepower coverage” effect, then the sense of awe and ecstasy would double!

Moreover, even in the virtual world, achieving such a scale in less than 24 hours was impressive enough to warrant admiration.

Under the three-layered influence, the gifts and comments poured out quickly, overwhelming the viewers.

Interestingly, the team provided three viewing angles – by having three people live-streaming and checking on each other’s work.

One of the angles was right in front of the cannon array!

At the moment when ten thousand cannons fired, this angle would experience the sensation of being hit by ten thousand artillery shells head-on!

It’s genuinely the first-person view!

“Countdown starts!” The players didn’t hesitate, and as soon as they finished their preparations, they started the countdown.

“3!”

“2!”

“1!”

“Fire!!!!!”

Despite the excitement in their voices, their actual actions were small, just pressing the button in front of them…

However, although the action was small, what happened next was incredibly spectacular –

10,000 cannons roared deafeningly at the same time, resounding once more after 1/4 seconds, then another 1/4 seconds, and so on…

It was an endless loop!

No other sounds could be heard in the live broadcast room, only the continuous rumbling, causing the audience to lower their volume to the minimum because their eardrums itched.

At this moment, from the first-person perspective, the shells traced long parabolas, heading straight for the lens!

Due to the high firing frequency, one could even see, with the naked eye, a barrage of iron walls formed by shell after shell descending from the sky and ruthlessly slapping the earth.

Slapping that player.

The audience couldn’t see what happened afterward.

Because when the shells hit the ground, a massive explosion engulfed the area, which could only be seen from another distant angle, revealing the terrifying range of smoke and flames.

The scene was extremely spectacular, and the audience’s excitement surged like tidal waves.

The small team in the live broadcast was also astonished!

On the surface, the device seemed to be operating stably, with 40,000 shells fired per second. The world continued spinning, showing no signs of crashing.

But in their movements, they could already feel some inconsistency.

“Is there a delay?!” The player with the ID [Cannon Soldier No.1] standing by the switch, exclaimed excitedly.

He still couldn’t believe it.

Because, 40,000 shells per second couldn’t compare to Stanley’s 320,000 meters per second in terms of numerical value.

Could it be that they had actually made the game stutter so easily?

With ten times the current rate, their chances of success would be pretty high!

Once the players shared this information, not only did the team members grow excited, but the audience was also pumped up with enthusiasm, volunteering to help out one after another.

The “Cannon Cult’s” Great Infrastructure Plan is starting once again!

Having watched the whole process, Stanley felt somewhat hesitant.

—He didn’t want to boast about himself, but he had previously simultaneously brought chaos to all players’ worlds. And when Cannon Soldier No.1 mentioned that there was a delay in the world, he was sure that he hadn’t felt any changes.

In other words, the changes were most likely only in their own world.

This didn’t seem like a good omen…

*

Stanley didn’t live stream for too long, logging off before the “Cannon Cult” reached the next stage of completion.

During the live streaming, besides chatting and checking on the progress, he watched other players’ efforts to disrupt the server and only attempted a few rounds against the Empress of Light, getting beaten miserably.

After logging off, he checked the ranking of [Erotic Redstone Figure] again.

As a fun-loving person, he naturally voted for Super Tomato’s Erotic Redstone Figure early on.

By now, this work had incredibly climbed to third place.

Its popularity was evident.

…

Another half an hour passed, and there were no changes in the top 10, which became its final ranking.

Super Tomato’s team members were extremely excited, and their fans group was full of cheers, congratulating them on making money.

—However, the actual prize money wasn’t that much, as there were simply too many people in their team. By the time they registered, there were nearly 400 members.

Most of the event’s prize money was concentrated on the champion.

The third place prize was only 300,000, and despite seeming like a lot, it amounted to less than 1,000 dollars per person when divided.

It was nowhere near as outrageous as the champion, who had 3 million in cash deposited directly into their account.

Moreover, the champion’s team had few members, only a total of 8 people!

An average of 375,000 per person! Even if taxed, it was still a huge windfall.

As for how they managed to get the championship with only eight people, it was an unbelievable story that broke through the sky.

However, before discussing the champion, the runner-up’s work — [Code] — must be mentioned first.

Initially, when seeing his own ranking, Super Tomato was a bit uneasy, as the work had little “Redstone technology” content, and getting third place had a large element of luck and mischief.

But after watching the runner-up’s work, he quickly felt relieved.

The introduction to the runner-up’s work was a seemingly meaningless sentence at first glance—

『In Ancient Babylon, the great Hammurabi wanted to enact laws. He found a stele and engraved the laws upon it. But the ministers, considering that the stele could easily be eroded by the sun and rain, said: Don’t set the code here. But Hammurabi did not want to change his decision, so he said: I will set the code here.』

At first, Super Tomato thought this was a work about “Hammurabi’s Code.”

But after watching the video, he was immediately baffled—

The team’s work was actually to create a keyboard and display using Redstone technology in “My World”!

Each key on the keyboard was the size of a person.

When inputting, one had to run around the keyboard, triggering one key at a time, which looked very clumsy.

The display was even more exaggerated, being as tall as a dozen floors.

But no one can ignore the technical content of this thing.

This was made using the most basic “Redstone”!

However, this wasn’t the end. After briefly introducing the Redstone techniques used, the author started running around on the keyboard, inputting content.

And each key he input was smoothly displayed on the screen—

『wo dou dong, wo dou ming, wo shi xuan xiang E, wo shi plan B, shi fen cha de tou fa, xi yi ji liu chu de pao mo… wo shi, wo shi, wo shi xiao meng de gou!』

Not knowing whether it was because of the short time or encountering some technical bottleneck, they couldn’t create Chinese character displays, so they finally chose Pinyin input.

Super Tomato spent a good while puzzling before he matched the Pinyin to tones and translated it into Chinese—

『I understand, I know, I am Option E, I am plan B, I am forked hair, foam from the washing machine, crushed biscuits in the supermarket, tired cream, lonely city, grass on the ground, spare button on a suit, rain-soaked dog, rotten orange, expired milk, broken kite, casually discarded sunflower, the silent little friends, I am, I am, I am Mavis’ dog!』

“……”

After the translation was completed, Super Tomato was silent for a long time.

In the end, he only gave a two-word evaluation: “Unbelievable!”

By the way, he also understood the meaning of the introduction. It had nothing to do with “Hammurabi’s Code,” and the only truly important part was the last sentence:

『Lose my mind right here.』

Ps. Just saying in advance, I’m taking a three-day leave during the New Year, from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the second day of the lunar year. I’ll spend quality time with my family and sort out the various storylines.