Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1019: Chapter 947: The Painting Style Becomes Strange!

_1 Chapter 1019: Chapter 947: The Painting Style Becomes Strange!

_1 “What got you all worked up?”

Lincoln’s voice sounded somewhat puzzled.

But what came from the communication wasn’t just Lincoln’s puzzled voice, but also the slight chuckle of a little girl.

This left Yi a bit unsure, “Are you sure you weren’t messing with my live streaming room’s probabilities?”

“Of course not.” Lincoln immediately denied.

“Then…” Yi wasn’t satisfied, “Could the development team have done it?”

He voiced this out without much confidence.

Because Lincoln was known to be incorrigible, enjoying messing with players, which was basically a consensus in the player circle.

But the Cloud Dream’s Development Team had a generally good reputation—even if they did mess with people, Lincoln always took the blame.

“No.” Lincoln denied his guess again and prompted him, “Speaking of which, do you know what you’re doing?”

“Huh?” Yi was taken aback, “What’s wrong?”

“You as a public figure, attacking the professional ethics of Cloud Dream developers in front of tens of millions of viewers…

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don’t you think that’s a bit risky?”

“Ah?

Ah!

I’m sorry!” Yi immediately backed down.

But from the other side, Lincoln’s laughter came through: “Hahaha, I’m just messing with you!

So tell me, what got you so worked up?”

At his words, Yi immediately began to rant.

On Lincoln’s end, Mavis also started to broadcast Yi’s live streaming in real time—Mavis started laughing since Yi first called and hadn’t stopped since.

Previously, almost every time a new game was released, they would watch the live stream together, but the appearance of the mech and the special limited sales method made Lincoln have to attend to more things, so he didn’t have much time to watch the live stream.

But Mavis was different.

— No matter how busy, she’ll never miss out on her gossips and dramas.

She even recorded a highlight reel to watch with Lincoln when he was finished with his work.

Lincoln had finished listening to Yi’s grievances and also finished watching Mavis’s “highlights”, he completely understood why he was so upset.

But he didn’t comfort Yi, instead he said: “You’re really lucky.”

“Lucky?” Yi was puzzled, “You call this lucky??”

“Of course!

Do you know how hard it is to get [Epic Fail]?” Lincoln revealed a corner of the game’s hidden mechanism to Yi, “It’s a one-in-a-thousand chance!”

“Normally, dice roll results are only [Success] and [Fail], both of which can continue to play and will not directly trigger the ending, only the one-in-a-thousand chance of [Epic Success] and [Epic Fail] will trigger the special ending.”

“Ah??” Yi hesitated, “I got a one-in-a-thousand chance of [Epic Fail] on my first try?”

“That’s right!

Congratulations~” Mavis suddenly leaned over to Lincoln, cheerfully congratulating.

Yi was left speechless by Mavis’s voice, swallowing down his retort of ‘you still claim you didn’t change the probabilities’.

Facing this little girl who frequently appears on the special thanks list, has an extremely close relationship with Lincoln, and has an astonishing number of fans, Yi’s attitude instantly improved.

“Can I ask then, what would have happened if I had rolled an [Epic Success]?”

“About that—” Mavis extended her voice.

When both Yi and the viewers were all ears, she pantingly finished her sentence: “Mavis cannot tell~”

“Hahaha.” Lincoln ruffled Mavis’s head, “If you’re curious, just load the game and try again, you’re bound to get it, keep it up keep it up.”

Yi wordlessly hung up the communication and loaded the game to restart.

But he didn’t plan on really restarting over and over again.

After all, the mental pressure when being “chosen” by a pioneer wasn’t exactly comfortable.

And more importantly: with so many players around the world playing, what result can’t be tested out?

Why does he have to be the stubborn one?

He doesn’t even need to ask viewers specifically, by tonight at most, related intelligence will appear in the forum, it might even be made into short videos and posted everywhere, maybe he can even scroll through it before bed.

As for himself—

“I think it’s necessary to study that [Flesh and Blood Technology] and [Biological/Mechanical Hybrid Monster].”

Yi went through the previous system recordings, while loading the game, he was thinking about the following game routes.

“[Flesh and Blood Technology] is a plugin for mech modification module, which means: Can the mech be modified into a hybrid of mechanics and flesh and blood?”

“Isn’t that the same as [Biological/Mechanical Hybrid Monster]?”

He was silent for a few seconds, then concluded, “Why did the style of this game suddenly become odd?”

*

Yi belonged to the group of players who realized it later.

He was strictly following the traditional [Mech Battles Against Monsters] route.

If he wasn’t preparing his mech, he was battling in it.

And amid all this, he also had some interactions with the female protagonist, Shinshi.

It was the standard story of passion and pathos.

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But thanks to the influence of Super Tomato and Victoria, many of the new players who joined the game after work or school played in an outrageous way.

The game’s style had long since become irregular!

The players had successfully infiltrated [Forgotten Cemetery] and were exploring it as “outsiders”.

Even if they hadn’t uncovered any big news yet, many anomalous phenomena had already caught the player’s attention.

Firstly, the proportion of human body alterations here was unusually high!

The wreckage of mechs everywhere was also a bit abnormal— accidents were just too frequent.

Someone would run into trouble every three days.

Besides, there seemed to be a strange disease prevailing here.

Those who contracted the disease would intermittently experience mental vagueness, body heat, and show a strong impulse for “limb modification”.

Lastly, players also discovered a prosthetic body modification clinic.

But because the owner was out, it was temporarily closed.

As for the reason why the owner was out—

Turned out he was out on a chivalrous mission!

According to the neighbors, a group of bandits had recently emerged here, specifically robbing the body parts of those who had undergone prosthetic modifications, even causing several deaths.

The owner couldn’t stand it and went out alone to investigate.

…

A thick cloud of mystery hung over the cemetery.

Everyone realized there must be a big problem here, but they hadn’t found the crucial clue yet.

But even so, the style of [Forgotten Cemetery] had already deviated significantly from “Mech Battles Against Monsters”.

And the [Chosen One Gameplay] was even more bizarre.

In stark contrast to battling monsters to save the world, it became cultivating monsters to conquer the world, instantly transforming the player from a savior to a major villain.

The primary gameplay of this mode wasn’t to control monsters like Super Tomato and fight against mechs, personally conquering the world— that was just a part of the gameplay.

The real gameplay was somewhat like a farming strategy game—building your own “monster base”, fostering a “monster army”, and capturing one human stronghold after another until you conquer the entire world and complete the main missions.

Then, you can lead your monster army to randomly invade other players’ worlds.

As for what you might encounter in those invasions…

Whether it’s an army of mechs or another monster army, it’s still unknown.

But right now, everyone isn’t too concerned about such far-off things.

After all, everyone is still in the starting stage, just beginning to cultivate monsters.

—Currently, the hottest topics under this mode of gameplay are the intelligence on the defense of human strongholds, and showing off the extraordinary monsters that they just cultivated.

Like a giant fox with eight tails, a chimera with nine heads, a half-spider with eight legs, a snake demon with six arms…

All types of bizarre creatures are being moulded by the players bit by bit.

But as everyone’s resources are quite limited, to make such drastic morphological changes in the biological blueprint often results in serious degradation of monster strength.

Those seemingly astonishing creatures are only of level one or two in actuality.

In the game, they couldn’t withstand a single strike from the mechs.

However, online, they could earn a plethora of comments like, “Awesome”, “Outrageous”, “Give us some sexy ones,” and so on.

To many players, the attention and astonishment from other players were much more satisfying than a simple victory in the game.

So, monsters of various designs are popping up one after another like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Some have even started to create monster versions of Pokémon in the game— But this was quite difficult.

Creating an adorable Pokémon using monster skin texture was not something an ordinary person could do.

To lower some of these “creative barriers,” they had no choice but to “waste time” attacking strongholds to acquire more new technologies and blueprints.

Unlike the above group of players exploding with creativity, Super Tomato actually cared quite a bit about progress—Although he too had countless wacky ideas, he decided to wait until he’d conquered the world and completed the main missions before trying them out.

Especially after learning about the existence of [Biological/Mechanical Hybrid Monsters], he immediately thought about the feasibility of [Pure Mechanical Monsters] and [Pure Flesh and Blood Mechs].

With that thought, he felt his imagination explode, conjuring up a bunch of strange ideas.

He also developed a strong anticipation for the [Random Invasion] gameplay after completing the main storyline!