Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch-Chapter 1040
Chapter 1040: Chapter 963 “This is a rip-off!!!”_1 Chapter 1040 -963 “This is a rip-off!!!”_1 [Logging into Pandora…]
[Please Select Game Mode]——
[Travel Mode]/[Challenge Mode]
(Please note: [Travel Mode] emphasizes sightseeing, with low difficulty levels.
You can experience a relaxing and pleasant journey to an alien planet.
However, in this mode, it is impossible to trigger any [Challenges].)
([Challenge Mode] has a high level of difficulty, please consider carefully.)
[You have opted for: Challenge Mode]
[Generating terrestrial predators, marine predators, and aerial predators…]
[Generating savage predators, less savage predators, and mild predators…]
…
[Environment generator complete, welcome to Pandora!]
“Why is everything a predator???”
“What on earth is a ‘mild predator’?!”
Victoria grumbles loudly.
She’s really frustrated, but still chooses to log in through the normal channel.
As for why…
She’s really tempted by the [Wish] Lincoln promised!
...
But she can’t help feeling resentful about not being able to sneak in, which made her eager to find fault and nitpick.
But the live-streamer community thought it was quite reasonable:
“After all, it’s a [challenge beyond ordinary imagination].
It’s reasonable to have a high difficulty level.”
“Indeed, if the difficulty is too low and one or two hundred million people go there to make a wish, in the end, I guess everyone would just get a few dollars…”
“The flying dragon with the outrageously gorgeous skin we saw earlier should be in the [savage predator] category, right?”
…
Victoria looked at the surroundings.
Guessing she was in some kind of cave, she quickly moved towards the source of the light.
A soft music started to play, mixed with a hint of exotic charm which slightly relaxed Victoria’s tense nerves.
Victoria walked out of the cave and stood on a small protruding platform on the rocky wall, realising she was quite high up, overlooking a dense forest.
Looking farther away, the green trees extended all the way to eternity, vanishing into dense fog.
Regular trees and towering giant trees make up a green forest.
But at the end of the line of sight, an enormous tree stood there astonishingly, with the dense fog crawling at its feet, its heavy crown was even higher than the clouds!
Upon seeing this tree for the first time, a thought inevitably rose in Victoria’s heart——
One of the eight [Challenges beyond ordinary imagination] Lincoln spoke about must be on this giant tree!
No matter what the exact form of the challenge, there’s definitely one there!
If such an conspicuous and unignorable landmark isn’t being utilized, that would be abnormal!
Victoria set it as one of her goals, then shifted her gaze beyond the giant tree, trying to gather more information.
But further away, she could only see rolling mountains, some peaks even covered in snow, indicating a very high altitude.
After looking at these mountain peaks, she ended this round of observation and instinctively looked up at the sky.
Then she completely froze——
Displayed in front of her was a planet of an outrageous size!
It was the gaseous giant [Boluphimus], with its entire body a dreamlike blue, stretching across the sky of Pandora.
Looking at this big guy, Victoria even developed a mild fear of gigantic objects.
The sudden appearance of such a massive object in the sky, used to the size of the “moon” and “sun” in the Earth’s sky, was extremely unsettling for Victoria.
This phenomenon, which completely contradicts deep-rooted “common sense,” gives a profound cognitive shock that those who are watching the live broadcast behind the screen could not perceive.
So everyone just admired this dreamy sight, praising continually: this sky is too beautiful, Lincoln is so clever…
Only Victoria, who was in the midst of the scene, stood dumbfounded for a while before forcing herself to look down, no longer staring at that terrifying planet.
Compared to that giant star, the other three planets in the sky were much easier to accept.
—Even though their close proximity made them look a little too large and made her feel uncomfortable, compared to Boluphimus, they were still much easier to accept…
Victoria forced herself not to look at that big guy and decided to get moving.
But before that——
“Which way is north?”
She was a bit stunned as she checked her panel, only to find it was empty.
There was no character card, no attribute panel, no task bar, not even a map.
This left her bewildered.
Her question immediately got the live-streamer community buzzing:
“Good question indeed!”
“All the ways I know of determining direction in the wild are related to the sun and stars, which I guess you can’t use now.”
“Indeed!
Even if you were to observe the density of the plants, that’s fundamentally governed by the sun.
But the issue is: which side does the sun rise from here is up for debate!”
“And moreover, the strong light reflection effect of the gaseous giant star itself will significantly interfere with this judgment!”
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The live-streamer community chatted a bunch, successfully ruling out most of the ways to determine direction on Earth.
Victoria sighed speechlessly, left the small platform, and slowly descended to the ground along the less steep side.
“Let’s just head towards the World Tree first – that big tree.
Unless it has a different name, I’ll just call it the World Tree.”
But after entering the forest, Victoria asked in confusion after less than five minutes:
“Which way is that tree again?”
Without real-time maps and no wilderness survival experience, it’s strange not to get lost in the unfamiliar forest!
And as soon as Victoria finished speaking, she subconsciously pursed her lips.
She realized late, “Why do I feel my mouth is a bit dry, like I’m thirsty?”
This really can’t blame her for reacting slowly – when have the players ever been thirsty in the virtual world?
“Wait…
I won’t have to find my own water to drink, find something to eat, will I?”
Victoria sensed big trouble.
After walking for a while, she even felt her legs start to ache.
This made her confirm one more horrifying fact:
On the planet Pandora, her physical fitness is about the same as in reality!
Even in “Pacific Rim” where the template is ordinary people, they neither get hungry, thirsty nor tired.
They might be called mortals, but in reality, they are superhuman, just not as outrageous as in “Chang’an”.
But now, on Pandora, she really became a mortal with a physical body!
Even a little worse than the standard template – it’s basically her sedentary lifestyle fitness in reality!
“I kind of understand why Lincoln said the difficulty was astonishing…”
“Starting with wilderness survival, who can withstand this?!”
Victoria couldn’t help but complain.
But wilderness survival is just the basics, and soon she saw something abnormal:
A patch of white tombstones suddenly appeared in the green forest.
“?” Victoria stopped, “What’s that?”
It has been all-natural environment along the way, now suddenly seeing a pile of man-made objects – even though they were all tombstones, Victoria was still very interested and walked over.
She crouched down to observe the nearest tombstone and found it read:
[[Eat Shit Boss] died from a poisonous wolf bite]
She looked at another one:
[[Rich Woman Look At Me] died from a poisonous wolf bite]
And another one:
[[Giselle] died from a poisonous wolf bite]
Victoria stood up, swept a glance over the dozen or so tombstones around her, and suddenly had a strong foreboding in her heart.
The next moment, this premonition came true: an animal that looked like both a hyena and a coyote, with two “braids” growing on its head, appeared in front of her.
Then came the second one, the third one, the fourth one…
She looked at the teeth of this creature and easily came to a conclusion:
“They are carnivorous, right?”
The poisonous wolves lunged at her.
Victoria held up the tree branch she had picked up from the ground as a crutch.
Victoria opened her eyes in the cave.
“…”
“…”
“…”
“This is a screw job!!!”
Victoria was mentally exploding.
“Is this for people to play?!”
“It’s just designed to torment people, isn’t it?!”
“A gift to everyone?
Wanting to share the joy with everyone?”
“I think Little Princess has started picking up bad habits from Lincoln too!!”
“Play?
Play my ass!
Let’s all go bash Lincoln!”
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