Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 645: Chapter 612: Hell Without Lava

As a well-known anchor, Turner really isn’t lacking in money.

But since he’s a bit of a homebody and doesn’t really like running around, he would never have thought of living in another country if he hadn’t been beaten so badly in the past couple of days.

——These past two days have been really tough for him.

Back when he was still fighting in the T2 War Zone, with 6 countries in the fray, he had more victories than losses and lots of fun, making him more and more excited about the game.

But ever since there were only Russian and Daxia players left as opponents, everything changed.

Now, even without looking at the system prompts, he can tell whether an opponent is a Russian or a Daxia player just by charging at them.

Although it might be a bit of a generalization, in Turner’s experience, Russian players excel at large-scale collective charges and are almost invincible in close combat.

When faced with this kind of “group” charge, France would usually be crushed in nine out of ten encounters with Russia.

Daxia players, on the other hand, are not so dominant.

In large-scale encounters, when France faces off against Daxia, the outcomes can often be quite evenly balanced under normal circumstances.

But what Turner doesn’t understand is that Daxia players don’t seem to have a strong desire to win, and often enjoy doing ridiculous things.

He often sees Daxia players driving bouncing cars, shooting while charging mindlessly towards their side.

There are also those who fly heavy bombers but don’t bomb vehicles, instead targeting snipers, or those who deliberately let themselves get hit to experience how it feels to be a war behemoth, or those who use planes to ram people, or those who cosplay as Zhao Zilong on horseback, or those who “paint” on walls with bullets, or those whose shooting skills may not be great but whose trash talk is invincible, or those who sneak into their opponents’ bases to steal their stuff…

Turner will never forget the feeling of being stabbed in the back eight times in a row by the same person in the same game after reviving.

He really wanted to die in that moment!

As a result, he feels that against Daxia, the match often turns into a messy affair, with any sense of command or strategy completely gone.

What’s even more absurd is that it seems every match against Daxia is a close-fought contest that could go either way.

But when checking the records afterwards, it turns out that in 10 matches against Daxia players, they lose 8 of them…

This is even more frustrating than playing against Russia!

At least when playing against Russian players, they know where they went wrong.

When playing against Daxia players, not only do they lose in an incomprehensible manner, but they don’t even know how they win…

Reviewing the matches afterwards makes them question their lives.

“I’m tired, let it rot.”

Even though France managed to enter the T1 War Zone by completing their ranking matches in the afternoon, Turner couldn’t bring himself to be happy about it.

Not only Turner, but British players weren’t too happy either.

Over the past week, they had been greatly stimulated by India, working hard in national warfare and managing to climb the ranks to 9th place despite the unfavorable conditions.

That was already at the tail end of the T2 War Zone.

But just as Daniel and the others were rejoicing in their milestone achievement, Italy suddenly leaped ahead during the final hour, kicking them down one place with a slim 8-point lead, seizing the last spot in the T2 War Zone.

As a result, Britain, with only an 8-point difference, fell back into the T3 War Zone.

Although they were ranked first in the T3 War Zone, this was not a cause for celebration as India was right behind them in second place!

And following behind them was Baekje, who had fallen from the T2 War Zone.

That’s right, Baekje dropped all the way from 4th place in the T2 War Zone to 3rd place in the T3 War Zone, and they seemed to continue to fall…

All Southeast Asian countries, except Annan, were still lying low in the T3 War Zone.

Here, “lying low” refers to their National Warfare Points, not their attitude.

In fact, quite a few Southeast Asian country players have ambitious goals, fighting every day in National War mode.

Unfortunately, this effort in the grand scheme of the entire war zone is just a drop in the ocean and doesn’t shake the overall situation.

Some players from Southeast Asian countries have already started to make preparations, contacting each other to form a “Southeast Asian Players Alliance” to deal with the [Peak War] next weekend.

Yes, today’s end of the war zone division not only means the redistribution of war zone reward BUFFs but also determines the sequence of battlefield choices for participating countries in the next weekend’s [Peak War].

Preparations for the [Peak War] are imminent.

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However, such an important new war zone division announcement did not cause much of a stir in Daxia.

Firstly, because Daxia’s position did not change, though the previous horrifying point difference is gone, as long as they are still first, everyone doesn’t care too much.

Secondly, it’s because everyone is paying attention to another thing—

Terraria expert mode [Wall of Flesh] combat challenge!

After a whole day of effort on Sunday, players with stable teams have almost completely paved the Hell with battlefields.

As the first team started live streaming their challenge of the Wall of Flesh, other teams immediately followed, fearing they would fall behind.

In this heated atmosphere, even teams with insufficient progress in construction could not help but start the battle early.

Just like this, as if a horn was blown, the [Wall of Flesh] expert mode first blood competition officially began!

Audiences are sure to be busy, constantly switching live broadcast rooms so as not to miss any exciting scenes.

Here the [exciting scenes] do not only refer to the extraordinary operations performed by the players, but also those performed by the BOSS.

On Cangniao’s side, he has not formed a team and remains stubborn, continuing to build the arena alone and challenge the Wall of Flesh.

As a result, his arena is only a thin and long strip, spanning across the middle of Hell.

Cangniao starts the challenge directly on this kind of battlefield, and then, like walking on a tightrope, he runs and jumps, dodging lava, falling rocks, small monsters, and BOSS skills while still finding time to counterattack!

This kind of gameplay has excellent live streaming effects and first-class viewing experience; even audiences who know nothing can see that he’s an expert from his agile and smooth movements.

However, the problem is also obvious: the output conditions are too poor, not much damage can be dealt, which will prolong the battle and is obviously unfavorable to Cangniao.

In the end, due to continuous falling rocks that destroyed a long section of the “air road,” he had nowhere to step.

The double jump and rocket boots had already been used to dodge BOSS skills, so he was finally whipped by the BOSS into the lava pool…

Despite all of this, Cangniao is not discouraged. After logging back into the world with a new character, he pulls out his spare equipment and prepares to continue the battle—he has prepared a total of six sets of spare equipment.

Cangniao is not discouraged, because his current goal is not to take down the BOSS’ first blood—he himself feels that when facing this BOSS, individuals have a much greater disadvantage than teams.

So he has already changed his goal to “Single Player Expert Mode First Blood.”

In this way, his mindset is very stable.

During the journey, he even has the mood to pay attention to the situation in the live broadcast room.

But upon seeing the content the audiences are discussing, he immediately loses his composure—

[Brothers! Bandits are starting their live streaming!]

“???” Cangniao stops moving, lights a torch, opens the panel, and jumps to Cloud Dream Live Streaming, following the live streaming room address that the audience provided.

He guessed while searching: “Are they here to challenge the Wall of Flesh first blood too?”

“No, wait…” Cangniao realized something after speaking, looked at the time, and confidently corrected himself: “I know! Night City is currently in the Death Racing competition, right? They plan to do it again, live streaming while blowing up the race track? How arrogant is that?”

But upon entering the live streaming room, Cangniao realizes he was mistaken.

The bandits do come to challenge the Wall of Flesh first blood, but their method leaves Cangniao in complete admiration—

Because in the “Bandits” Hell, there is no lava anymore.